Congress in Trouble Once Again For Sam Pitroda's Remarks
- By Thetripurapost Desk, New Delhi
- May 08, 2024
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Congress seems to be in trouble once again due to Sam Pitroda's new statement. He has once again created a political uproar by making statements on the complexion of Eastern India and North India.
Actually, while talking about the diversity of India, Sam Pitroda said that in India, the people in the east look like Chinese while the people in the south look like Africans. Whereas people in the West look Arabic and North Indians look fair. Recently, Sam Pitroda had commented on inheritance tax, there was a lot of controversy over that statement of Pitroda.
BJP had targeted Congress on Sam Pitroda's statement and said that Congress wants to snatch people's personal property. There was so much uproar over Pitroda's statement that the Congress party had to come to the rescue.
The Congress immediately distanced itself from Pitroda's remarks, terming them "unacceptable".
Many people will surely have this question in their mind that who is Sam Pitroda , who has put Congress in trouble with his statements?
Let us tell you that Sam Pitroda also has a special connection with Rahul Gandhi. His full name is Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda. He is the President of Indian Overseas Congress.
He is considered the father of information revolution in India. During the tenure of the UPA government, he had also been the Prime Minister's advisor for the UN during the tenure of the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He was also an advisor on public information infrastructure and innovation. Sam Pitroda has also been the Chairman of the Indian Knowledge Commission from 2005 to 2009.
He has also been the founder and first chairman of the Telecommunication Commission of India. During this time, he prepared a blueprint for reform of knowledge-related institutions and infrastructure for the 21st century.
In the year 1984, on the invitation of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, he established C-DOT i.e. 'Center for Development of Telematics' for research and development in the field of telecommunication.
Impressed by his ability, Rajib Gandhi worked to give direction to his domestic and foreign telecom policy. Not only this, Sam Pitroda is also a businessman. He also runs many companies in America.
Sam Pitroda was born in a Gujarati carpenter family in Titlagarh, Odisha. He completed his early studies from Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He took master's degree in Physics and Electronics from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara.
In 1964, he went to America and obtained a master's degree in Electrical Engineering. Returning to India in 1981, he thought of helping in modernizing the country's telecommunication system.
In 1984, on the invitation of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, he returned to India and established C-DOT i.e. 'Center for Development of Telematics'.
Sam Pitroda is considered the political guru of Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi has been meeting him from time to time and consulting him on many issues. From this it is believed that Rahul Gandhi is very close to him.
Gandhi family confidant Sam Pitroda is also considered very close to Rahul Gandhi. This is the reason why the opposition party BJP taunts him by calling him Rahul Gandhi's uncle.