When the knotty issued of succession / inheritance cropped up before Yashvant Rao Holker of Indore, then Prime Minister Nehru mandated under his signature, progeny born to his Hindu first wife to be the rightful successor though the elder Holkar wanted progeny of his foreign second wife to be the one to succeed him. Nehru was entirely against son born to his second wife, a foreigner, to succeed him.
One Sonali used to be a famous actress from Bengal during 1950s. She married an Italian film director, migrated to Italy and adopted Italian citizenship immediately unlike Antonia Maino turned Sonia Gandhi who accepted Bharatiya citizenship after 15 years of her marriage to Rajiv Gandhi. After twenty years of her marriage with the Italian director, she was bitten by a political bug and wished to contest election to some municipal corporation in an Italian town. She filed her nomination papers which were duly rejected after scrutiny on the ground that she was certainly an Italian citizen but not an Italian but a Hindu Bharatiya !!
Italy did not accept a Hindu immigrant yet a major political party in Bharata was hell-bent to see an Italian Antonia Maino as Prime Minister in 2004 and now her son, born to his Italian mother, as Prime Minister. Will they respond to it ?
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