Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday, 17 October 2025, levelled a series of allegations against former Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Indira Gandhi, claiming that Rajiv Gandhi acted as a “middleman” for a Swedish defence company in the 1970s. Citing old diplomatic communications and reports published by WikiLeaks in 2013, Dubey alleged that Rajiv Gandhi was involved in brokerage for the Saab-Scania company, which was seeking to sell Viggen fighter jets to India during that period.
In a post shared on social media platform X on 17 October 2025, Dubey wrote, “Rahul Gandhi ji’s father, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi ji, was an agent of a Swedish military company, meaning he was involved in brokerage in the 70s?”
राहुल गांधी जी के पिताजी पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री राजीव गांधी जी स्वीडन की सैनिक कम्पनी के एजेंट थे यानि 70 के दशक में दलाली करते थे? pic.twitter.com/ZsoGJHlcLK
— Dr Nishikant Dubey (@nishikant_dubey) October 17, 2025
He had raised this back in July 2025 as well. Dubey alleged that then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was guilty of “excessive interference” in defence procurements. He said WikiLeaks cables and related reports had made such claims public in 2013, during the Congress-led UPA government, but no action was taken. He claimed the revelation originated from a 1975 communication between a Swedish diplomat and the American government. According to Dubey, the diplomat had informed the US that Saab-Scania was trying to secure the deal with India through Rajiv Gandhi, who at the time was a pilot and not yet active in politics.
In his post on 4 July 2025, he wrote, “In 2013, WikiLeaks made shocking revelations about former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Ji and Indira Gandhi Ji.
1. On October 21, 1975, a Swedish diplomat informed the US government that the Saab-Scania company wanted to sell Viggen fighter aircraft in India, and then-Prime Minister Indira Ji’s pilot son Rajiv Gandhi Ji was acting as a middleman in this?
2. Then-Prime Minister Indira Ji was interfering excessively in defense deals?
3. This came to light when the Congress government was in power at the center, Manmohan Singh Ji was the country’s Prime Minister—why didn’t the then-Indian government take action against the US government or the Swedish governments?
I wish?”
2013 में विकिलीक्स ने पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री राजीव गांधी जी व इंदिरा गांधी जी के लिए चौंकाने वाले ख़ुलासे किए
1. अक्टूबर 21 1975 को स्वीडन के राजनायिक ने अमेरिकी सरकार को यह बताया कि Saab- scania कम्पनी भारत में Viggen युद्धक विमान बेचना चाहती है और तत्कालीन प्रधानमंत्री इंदिरा जी… pic.twitter.com/LCo0xmFX9Q— Dr Nishikant Dubey (@nishikant_dubey) July 4, 2025
Continuing his attack then on the Congress leadership, Dubey cited declassified records from the CIA and the Mitrokhin Archive, alleging that during the Cold War era, the Gandhi family had allowed the Soviet Union to exert significant influence in Indian politics. He claimed that under the leadership of the late Congress minister H. K. L. Bhagat, more than 150 Congress MPs were “funded by the Soviet Union,” while Congress candidate Subhadra Joshi allegedly received ₹5 lakh from the German government between 1977 and 1980.
According to Dubey, the US Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan had mentioned in his writings that money had been given to Indira Gandhi twice. He also referred to a 1979 discussion in the Rajya Sabha, which he said concerned the same issue. Dubey alleged that a phone conversation between President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger also discussed how funding could be used to “manage” the Indian government.
“The diaries of CIA and Mitrokhin mention that under the leadership of H. K. L. Bhagat, more than 150 Congress MPs were funded by the Soviet Union. It also mentions that a total of 16,000 news articles were published by Russia according to their wish. If you look at it, it seems that our country was sold to Soviet Russia under the leadership of the Gandhi family,” Dubey told ANI.
The BJP MP added that he intends to continue raising the issue publicly, arguing that these historical records demonstrate how the Gandhi family allegedly “compromised national interests” for political and financial gain.
(Source: Economic Times)
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