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Invisible Government Rules India? |
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by Dr. Rajinder Puri |
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Two simultaneous developments are intriguing. After prevaricating for two months over submission of the supplementary charge sheet on the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case the CBI eventually submitted it to the court. It did not name either as accused, or as a suspect deserving questioning, Mr. Amit Shah, former Minister of State Home affairs and closest aide of Chief Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. The Home portfolio during the relevant period was held by Mr. Modi. Simultaneously there were reports that the central government will take up the allegations of unwarranted surveillance of a lady by the Gujarat police on instructions of Mr. Amit Shah who was propitiating an unnamed “Saheb”. It seems that surveillance was carried on even beyond the Gujarat border which falls under the jurisdiction of the central government allowing it to intervene.
It was the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case that was politically lethal. Over a dozen police officers are accused and in prison charged with fake encounter crimes. The most senior among them is DG Vanzara who until his arrest was the strongest personal favourite of Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Narendra Modi.
The CBI questioned Mr. Amit Shah after the letter was released. Mr. Shah denied to the CBI any knowledge of police activities related to the fake encounters. Records in possession of the police revealed that Mr. Shah had made 331 telephone calls to Vanzara and other police officers during the relevant period of the fake encounters under investigation. Despite this unusually close interaction with the jailed officers Mr. Shah claimed total ignorance about police activity related to the encounters. He did admit he had made the phone calls but described all 331 of them as routine. It is surprising that a minister lauded for his efficiency should be so incompetent as to be in total ignorance about his officers planning and executing these encounters. Is not the CBI controlled by the government? Of course it is. Can there be then the unthinkable view that the UPA government is actually going soft on Mr. Shah by focusing on the trivial Snoopgate scam and soft pedaling the damaging fake encounters case? If that be case, why should it happen? The answer is, why should it not happen? Should not the Congress as a quid pro quo go soft on possible misdemeanors by BJP leaders after the latter have shown such touching consideration for the Congress leadership? Consider the BJP record on alleged excesses of Congress leaders. Throughout the current poll campaign apart from taunts and personal jibes not one BJP leader has asked hard and searching questions on the government’s role in the Robert Vadra land deal, or Suresh Kalmadi’s foreign jaunts while on bail as a CWG scam accused. Contrast this with how Rajiv Gandhi was dragged over the coals during the Bofors affair! After the Huffington Post alleged and later retracted allegations of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi’s undeclared foreign wealth, not one BJP leader opened his mouth even though the allegation was old hat publicized earlier by the Swiss media, the Russian government, The Hindu newspaper, Mr. AG Noorani, Mr. Subramaniam Swamy and this writer. After the Maharashtra Home Minister declared in the assembly that Mrs. Sonia Gandhi’s Political Secretary Mr. Ahmed Patel had a secret meeting with notorious money launderer Hasan Ali, there was not even a murmur by any BJP leader. After an intrepid BJP intellectual echoed the foreign account allegation against Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, Mr. LK Advani promptly wrote a letter of apology to the Congress President…
After all this surely the decent and honourable course for the Congress would be to show equal consideration for the BJP leaders. Do not both parties cooperate by enriching their leaders at the cost of the nation? In the recent Adarsh scam Mr. Modi waxed eloquently against Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s silence over the corruption of Congress leaders that was exposed. But then it came to light that a BJP leader Mr. Abhay Sincheti, based in the RSS home town of Nagpur , was also hugely involved in the scam. One does not hear anything from BJP leaders about the Adarsh scam any more. Leaders of both parties have been caught time and again with their hands in the till. Jointly they loot the nation. It becomes difficult sometimes to determine which party is in the government and which is in the opposition. It becomes difficult sometimes to identify which party is actually governing the nation. It almost seems sometimes that India is being ruled by an invisible government. |
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Dr.R.K.Uppal 01/08/2014 10:48 AM
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