Today, the lands, the Indian president in Sweden for the first Indian state visit to Sweden ever. And both countries hope it will lead to increased trade. But the attention of the president’s trip is not overwhelming in India.
There is no line if the President Pranab Mukherjee’s trip to Sweden in the morning’s newspapers in India. But writes Zee TV’s website on the visit to Sweden. There, says that there live about 18 000 people of Indian origin in Sweden, and there are about 170 Swedish companies in India. But only 50 Indian companies in Sweden.
An Indian President’s role is essentially ceremonial but Mukherjee, who has held the position since 2012, has been active in Indian politics since the early 1970s . The Congress party that lost power a year ago, he has held many ministerial posts.
If it is quiet today around the state visit that brought the DN’s interview with the president a week ago, the more attention this time the scandal Bofors affair again came up into the light.
It was in 1986 that Swedish Bofors sold arms to India a billion deal in which echo later revealed that in the context of the agreement had money paid into a secret account in Switzerland. Mutanklagelserna said to be one reason that Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi lost elections, 1989.
Ever since this business been like an open wound between India and Sweden. The word Bofors in India is synonymous with corruption.
Just a month ago appeared the word up in Parliament when the Congress Party Raul Gandhi gave a speech where he went on the attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused him of not doing anything for the poor and to stop corruption in the country. Then someone shouted out into the parliament “Bofors” as a pointer towards the Congress Party that was in power when the deal was made up.
On his visit to Sweden, the Indian President that in addition to various company visits to meet both the King and Prime Minister Stephen Löfven.
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