Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan feels relieved when Sweden’s ex-police chief, Sten Lindstrom said that Amitabh Bachchan is innocent in the Bofors Gun Deal. IN 1984, India’s then Prime Minister was assassinated and his son, Rajiv Gandhi was Amitabh Bachchan’s best friend. To help his friend, Amitabh Bachchan too joined politics and fought election from his hometown Allahabad. Amitabh Bachchan won the election and became an MP.
Later on Amitabh Bachchan name fared in the Bofors gun deal as a major beneficiary. Amitabh Bachchan resigned from his Parliamentary seat from Allahabad and left politics never to join it again. But a lingering doubt always remained in public mind that Amitabh Bachchan, being a close friend of then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, was involved in Bofors Gun Deal. Later on, Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi family’s friendship deteriorated too. Amitabh Bachchan’s wife Jaya Bachchan is a Rajya Sabha, MP from Samajwadi Party.
In an interview, Sweden’s retired Police Chief, Sten Lindstrom said that Amitabh Bachchan was falsely implicated in the Bofors Gun Deal. Sten Lindstrom intervie came as a huge relief for Amitabh Bachchan. He said main beneficiary in the Bofors Gun Deal is Ottavio Quattrocch, not Amitabh Bachchan.
Amitabh Bachchan wrote in his blog, “No one shall be able to understand or even remotely fathom, the hours and days and months and years of the anguish of petulant blame, that I had to go through.” He wrote further, “Those that colluded in desperation still abound… they won momentarily. But lost ultimately. Lost position and strength and power yes, but importantly their conscience.”
Amitabh Bachchan expressed his thoughts vividly, writing on his blog, “I speak from personal experience and personal exoneration. 25 years after the incident, I read today from one that pioneered accusation and investigation, of innocence. Of the fault that never lay before me. Of one that remained and shall perhaps remain a darkened spot, blemished beyond all recognition, but in admittance of wrong doing against me.”
Jaya Bachchan too who was in Delhi to take as a memeber of Rajya Sabha, told a private news channel, “The truth has finally come out, god is great.”
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