The Front now has a club to beat it with -- the Bofors papers.

CNN: BLAST FROM THE PAST

Graft is hardly new in India: the Bofors scandal brought down the government in 1989.

ECONOMIST: Corruption in India

Both Quattrocchi and Chadha have denied they received any bribes from Bofors.

CNN: BLAST FROM THE PAST

More than 20 years ago a similar investigation seemed to show that a Congress government was bribed by Bofors, a Swedish artillery supplier.

ECONOMIST: Coping with the aftermath of a massive scam

Also friends of the Gandhi family are the three Indians on the CBI list: Win Chadha, a former Bofors agent, his wife and their son.

CNN: BLAST FROM THE PAST

Now New Delhi faces trouble getting spare parts for the main weapon it is using in the battle - its 410 Swedish-built Bofors FH 77B howitzers.

CNN: INTELLIGENCE

It has long been assumed that Quattrocchi and Chadha allegedly received money from Bofors in return for helping the Swedish firm clinch the arms contract with India.

CNN: BLAST FROM THE PAST

In his lifetime too, Rajiv Gandhi had faced a controversy over alleged bribes paid by Swedish arms firm AB Bofors to clinch the sale of more than 400 howitzers to India.

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More important, the party will remind voters that her husband Rajiv lost the 1989 election after allegations of kickbacks in a deal to buy howitzers from Bofors, a Swedish arms company.

ECONOMIST: India

In 1989, Congress lost power largely because of allegations that members of then-prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's government and businessmen close to the administration had received bribes from the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors.

CNN: BLAST FROM THE PAST

And in terms of, in terms of the case there, the Bofors gun case in India, when do you, when do you expect to be able to leave India and come back here to London?

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