Over the years, Dr. Subrahamanian Swamy, a Harvard trained economist, has developed a reputation as a firebrand both in the U.S. and in his native India, and he’s at it again.

Dr. Swamy came to Atlanta in August as a guest of the Global Indian Business Council where he made a jab at U.S. immigration practices of keeping out lower paid Indian workers.

He also underscored his criticism of the National Congress Party, which goes back to the days of Indira Gandhi’s rule when she decreed a state of “emergency” and he escaped detention by fleeing to the U.S.

His opposition to the Gandhi family even predates his presidency of the Janata Party, which merged in 2013 with another political party to form the currently ruling Bharatiya Janata Party under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Apparently Dr. Swamy’s feud with the Ghandhis never ends, and this past weekend it bubbled up again due to corruption charges that he has pressed against Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, the inheritors of the political dynasty that ruled India for decades.

Dr. Swamy has portrayed himself as a modern-day Robin Hood bitterly attacking corruption that allegedly became commonplace, he claims, during the years that the Congress Party ruled.

In a sense, he is kicking the Congress Party when it’s down since it suffered a bitter electoral defeat almost two years ago.

But his case alleging Mrs. Gandhi and her son’s control over valuable real estate that belonged to the National Herald, a newspaper that was founded byJawaharlal Nehru, the great-grandfather of Rahul Gandhi, in 1937 and shut down in 2008, failed to pay back enormous outstanding debts for loans that had been extended tax free when the Congress Party ruled.

Global Atlanta asked Subash Razdan, a leader in Atlanta’s Indian community, to provide some clarity to the case which has attracted enormous attention in India.

“In my opinion, this complex scenario has a mix of all ingredients: politics by both political parties, corruption, distraction from the real issues, BJP party trying to undermine the Congress (Party) through proxy, where as Congress (Party) trying to get sympathy from the community by showing itself as a victim of vendetta by BJP in power, in the hopes that their ratings could get better after a dismal election showing in the last general elections,” he wrote back in an e-mail.

What’s drawn so much attention to the case is that it has brought out a coalition of Congress Party supporters rallying around Mrs. Gandhi and her son, and re-energizing it while it continues to lick its wounds from its last electoral defeat.

Meanwhile, the BJP party is being accused of fomenting the controversy. But Mr. Razdan also cited an opposing BJP view.

“When Dr. Swamy filed the suit, Dr. Swamy was not part of the BJP, but in the Janata Party. So the current administration of BJP say they have nothing to do with this when the lawsuit was filed and that Swamy joined the BJP much later and only recently,” he said.

Mr. Razdan added that the BJP claims that the issue should be resolved in the courts and not be used as a political football in the parliament.

As an outside observer, he felt compelled, however, to add:

“The fact remains, the people of India have had enough of absenteeism of the lawmakers from the parliament and need some answers as to what really happened in the National Herald case…be it from the courts or from the parliamentarians, or whoever. Failing which, the good progressive and development projects (being developed) may get put on the back-burner in the crossfire of politics.”