Interesting and never before revelations are coming to light in
the country which directly points towards hugely questionable deals committed
by top Indian political families. These seem to be the direct consequences
of the competitive media space in India emerging with the launch of Arnab
Goswami's Republic tv on 6th May,
2017 and the Times now tv trying its best not to fall behind. In the series of
revelations, Arnab Goswami went on the first day of it's channel launch to drop
a mighty bomb to expose RJD supremo, Lalu Prasad Yadav's link with convicted
MP, Shahabuddin instructing him to act in a certain ways. Shahabuddin, who is lodged in Delhi's
Tihar jail now, is serving a life sentence after being convicted in 10 cases. Next shocking revelation came with the sacked AAP leader, Kapil
Mishra making a public allegation, claiming that he saw Delhi Health
Minister Satyendra Jain handing Rs. 2 crores in cash to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Next the Republic TV in yet another expose claims to have
startling revelations in the Sunanda Pushkar death case. The channel released
19 phone recordings about Shashi Tharoor’s alleged involvement in the case.
Later, the courts added a big blow for the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and
Vice President Rahul Gandhi National Herald case after the Delhi High Court cleared its way for Income Tax
investigation on the Young India company. The High Court said that the company
cannot be arrogant and will have to submit their documents to the Income Tax
department. In the series,
another blow was given to Sonia and Rahul by Arnab Goswami who exposed how
Sonia and Rahul Gandhi used Party’s Public Money to invest in 50 shell
companies based in Kolkata. The revelation claimed that it was nothing but
organised loot by the Gandhis where a lot of real estate was bought with the
public party money which was under Young India company which gave direct
benefit to Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.
The Times Now tv in its series of revelations exposed a complex
web of shady land deal transactions how the family members of Rashtriya Janata
Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad
Yadav purchased expensive property at throwaway rates by buying and
selling shares in dubious front companies. Another
blow to Lalu Yadav came through the Supreme Court which revived the
quashed trial in the Deoghar treasury withdrawal case against him and ruling
that he will have to face separate trials in the 30-year-old fodder
scam cases.
The silence of Bihar Chief Minister on the revelations about his
major alliance partner, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Arvind Kejriwal about receiving 2
Cr Rs. in cash is intriguing for the nation. While Congress is claiming that
the charges about Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are nothing but vindictiveness
of BJP government, the truth must come out in the public through thorough
investigations. These revelations have huge political implications in the
country specially when the presidential elections are close and opposition
parties are trying to forge unity to put a common opposition candidate for the
highest post as well as the approaching 2019 parliamentary elections.
Such questionable transactions by the mighty political families
in India are part of rumor mills and social media in Indian political space but
nobody so openly has questioned them. It
is good for the democracy that the corruption in high places is exposed and the
guilty are punished as per the law of the land. It is also expected that the
Modi government and the vigilant courts will lead these corruption cases to
their logical conclusion in a time bound manner to help in cleansing the
political space.
It will be quite interesting to watch the political situations
developing with these revelations and hope many more to come to light.
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