KEJRIWAL – A CONGRESS MOLE IN
OPPOSITION?
How is Gadkari 'guilty' and Vadra 'innocent'?
It is normal in our kind of politics that whenever
a person makes allegations we brand him our opposite political party's agent.
Therefore, when, initially, Arvind Kejriwal of Nation Against Corruption (NAC)
made certain allegations against Congressmen and ministers, he was branded as
BJP agent by the party.
To erase this tage, Kejriwal on October 18, 2012 leveled
certain serious allegations against BJP president Nitin Gadkari alleging wrongdoings
in companies owned or managed by the latter. Gadkari was quick to respond with his
readiness to face any inquiry by any agency. Despite the Manmohan government
having acted in right earnest to undertake Income Tax raids on certain
companies run by Gadkari, government appears, so far, to have failed to rake up
any criminal case against him.
Allegations against Vadra
A week earlier on October 11, Kejriwal had made
almost similar allegations against Congress President Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's
son-in-law Robert Vadra. It was the Congress and Manmohan government which came
out with instant denial of the serious charges against Vadra as if it was not
Vadra but Congress and Manmohan government which was running his business that
they readily knew the ins and outs of the functioning of his companies. Vadra
came out to deny the charges later calling his accusers as "orange
boys" and branding our democracy of which we all, citizens, Congress
leaders and government alike, are all proud of. The same democracy which has
showered on Vadra the privileges and perks not available to people's
representatives and people holding public offices. Vadra did not dare to expose
his business doings to public scrutiny to let anybody peep into the facts. Manmohan
government did dismiss any demands for any independent and impartial inquiry.
Vadra 'innocent'
Even to a notice to the office of Prime Minister
Dr. Manmohan Singh, PMO on November 28
gave a clean chit to Robert Vadra in
an alleged land scam involving realty major DLF and told the Allahabad
High Court that that the
allegation against him (Vadra) "appear to be false, vexatious and based on
hearsay". ()
In the affidavit, filed by Dheeraj
Gupta, joint secretary in the PMO, it was stated that the case of Vadra and DLF was a matter between two individuals and
a purely business transaction. It was also said that both parties have already
explained their positions and hence the allegations made seem to be
"false, vexatious and based on hearsay." As per report, the PMO affidavit nowhere
states that its contents are based on any examination of the allegations and
the documents with Robert Vadra on the basis of which the PMO has come to this
conclusion.
On the contrary, in the matter of allegations
against Nitin Gadkari the PMO or the Congress were not as gracious, as they
were in the case of Vadra, that allegations against Gadkari too are ”a matter between two individuals and a
purely business transaction". For them Vadra remains 'innocent'
without inquiry and Gadkari 'tainted' and even 'guilty' of unexplained
corruption, again, without proof and inquiry.
By coincidence – and more by design – the
allegations against Gadkari were hurled 17 days before Himachal was to go to
the polls on November 4. Kejriwal was sanguine to the fact that allegations
against Vadra were not likely to have any adverse impact on Congress fortunes
in Himachal polling.
Similarly, on December 4 Arvind Kejriwal again
came out with some allegations against the Gujarat chief minister Narinder Modi
at the height of electioneering to the State assembly going to polls on December
13 and 17. By coincidence these allegations were also made about 17 days (and
21 days for the second phase of polling) before Gujarat polls. According to
Press reports, the allegations against Modi are a repeat and rehash of the
allegations made by Congress against Modi in a memorandum submitted to the
President of India a year back.
Kejriwal's choice of timing to make allegations
against Gadkari and Modi clearly indicates a political design with an electoral
punch. In both cases if there could be any beneficiary of Kejriwal's diatribes
it could only be Congress and Congress alone because both in Himachal and
Gujarat no other party matters. Since Kejriwal's own political outfit was not
in fray in Himachal as also in Gujarat, the obvious conclusion is that he is
just trying to make Congress derive as much electoral benefit as it can. The
same Congress whom Kejriwal and party have been targeting as the fountain of
corruption. With their conduct Kejriwal's Nation Against Corruption is only
promoting corruption and helping the 'corrupt' Congress reap the bumper crop of
electoral benefits.
Is then Kejriwal a Congress mole in the opposition
camp?
