Sankaran Nair, former head of the Intelligence Bureau and RAW, in his memoirs, Inside IB and RAW: The Rolling Stone that Gathered Moss. One interesting anecdote relating to DesaiвЂ™s famed unflappability came from K. Raj Narain, another minister in the Desai cabinet, went a step further by coming up with the rhyme: вЂњ Hamse kya parda hai, Kanti ke haath mein garda hai (Why hide it from us, KantiвЂ™s hands are muddied).вЂќДesai dismissed Raj Narain but the socialist teamed up with Charan to topple Desai as Prime Minister in the late summer of 1979.ДesaiвЂ™s reluctance to act against Kanti baffled many. He too wrote to Desai - and this letter also got leaked - underlining the charges against Kanti. In the letter, Limaye asked for KantiвЂ™s ouster from the Prime MinisterвЂ™s residence over allegations that he had misused his family ties to collect Rs 80 lakh for the party fund.Д¬haran Singh, father of current Union civil aviation minister Ajit Singh, was then DesaiвЂ™s home minister.

Noted socialist and fellow Janata Party leader Madhu Limaye is alleged to have written a letter to Desai that got leaked to the press. Narasimha Rao and Indira Gandhi, and others such as former defence minister Jagjivan Ram and former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan.Дesai suffered most at the hands of his own partyвЂ™s leaders and cabinet ministers when, after he became Prime Minister in 1977, allegations of financial irregularities surfaced against his son Kanti Desai.

New Delhi, May 5: Railway minister Pawan Bansal is merely the latest on a long list of powerful politicians who suffered embarrassment, and often setbacks to their careers, over allegations of misdeeds against family members.ДЄmong them were several Prime Ministers, including Morarji Desai, P.V.

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