the entire opposition to Emergency for the “audacity” and Dare Devilry against Indira Gandhi.

Post emergency he was one of the founder member of Janata Party and he continued with the party till the party merged with BJP in 2013. From that angle he was never a party hopper.

He also had the unique distinction of being a cabinet rank member in P V Narasimhma Rao cabinet even though he did not belong to Congress. He was appointed by the then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao in 1994 as Chairman with Commission of Labour Standards and International Trade with a cabinet rank.

The other aspects about him pertaining to exposure of 2G scam or protection of Sethu Samudram project and National Herald case are recent and well known.

Not many knows thathe was instrumental in removing the so called “Single directive” by which permission from Government needed before CBI proceeds against any official.

Swamy took this in Supreme Court which struck down this clause giving investigating agencies freedom to act against possible culprits.

He was solely responsible for the opening up of Manasarover route to Indians after his meeting with Deng Xiaoping in 1981.

It is an interesting journey of the mathematician/economist as a public interest political leader.

His current journey as Rajya Sabha member will create tremors and put the fear of action in to the heart of the wrong doers.

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Imagine a scenario with Dr Subramanian Swamy as the Finance Minister and Prof. Vaidhyanathan as the RBI Governor – it would be the most transformative and deadliest of all combos