Billionaire at Heart of Vyapam Scam Funded BJP, RSS Leaders: Tax Report // Vyapam probe threatens to drag in Sangh Parivar elders
NB: the looters are ultra-patriots, their opponents are anti-national elements -DS
NEW DELHI: A mining baron arrested on charges of being a prime player in the Vyapam or jobs scandal in Madhya Pradesh paid for the air tickets and other undefined expenses of top leaders of the BJP and its ideological parent, the RSS, according to an income tax report from 2013. That report was not pursued by state police investigators who were handling the Vyapam inquiry till this week, when the CBI took over.
"We are not shielding anyone. But let's not go by one odd report... let's wait for the CBI investigation," said the BJP's Shaina NC to NDTV. The document from 2013 said Sudhir Sharma, whose vast business empire includes mines and colleges, had made "huge payments in cash for air tickets, travel bills, etc" for a group of politicians including Suresh Soni of the RSS and Prabhat Jha, then state president of the BJP.
The report was based on diaries recovered in raids on Sudhir Sharma and said the billionaire made "payments for travel arrangements of important political personalities" like Laxmikant Sharma, former Mining and Education Minister in Madhya Pradesh and Dharmendra Pradhan, now a union minister; Congress state legislator Veer Singh Bhuria, the report said, received "regular payments" from Sudhir Sharma. "All those who are guilty should be punished," said Tom Vaddakan of his party.
The Vyapam scam is based on bribes paid for the blatant and wide-spread manipulation of recruitment exams for government jobs and state colleges. After six months of dodging arrest, Sudhir Sharma was jailed in July 2014, a month after former minister Laxmikant Sharma, whom he served as an aide in the early 2000s.
The income tax report accessed by NDTV alleges that Sudhir Sharma regularly received lakhs in cash from two colleges linked to the Vyapam scam. That money, tax officials said, "was passed onto a Madhya Pradesh minister's aide on the same day". The report called for an inquiry into "deep links" between the entrepreneur and Laxmikant Sharma. Reactions from those whose travel was paid for by Sudhir Sharma, according to Income Tax report:
NEW DELHI: A mining baron arrested on charges of being a prime player in the Vyapam or jobs scandal in Madhya Pradesh paid for the air tickets and other undefined expenses of top leaders of the BJP and its ideological parent, the RSS, according to an income tax report from 2013. That report was not pursued by state police investigators who were handling the Vyapam inquiry till this week, when the CBI took over.
"We are not shielding anyone. But let's not go by one odd report... let's wait for the CBI investigation," said the BJP's Shaina NC to NDTV. The document from 2013 said Sudhir Sharma, whose vast business empire includes mines and colleges, had made "huge payments in cash for air tickets, travel bills, etc" for a group of politicians including Suresh Soni of the RSS and Prabhat Jha, then state president of the BJP.
The report was based on diaries recovered in raids on Sudhir Sharma and said the billionaire made "payments for travel arrangements of important political personalities" like Laxmikant Sharma, former Mining and Education Minister in Madhya Pradesh and Dharmendra Pradhan, now a union minister; Congress state legislator Veer Singh Bhuria, the report said, received "regular payments" from Sudhir Sharma. "All those who are guilty should be punished," said Tom Vaddakan of his party.
The Vyapam scam is based on bribes paid for the blatant and wide-spread manipulation of recruitment exams for government jobs and state colleges. After six months of dodging arrest, Sudhir Sharma was jailed in July 2014, a month after former minister Laxmikant Sharma, whom he served as an aide in the early 2000s.
The income tax report accessed by NDTV alleges that Sudhir Sharma regularly received lakhs in cash from two colleges linked to the Vyapam scam. That money, tax officials said, "was passed onto a Madhya Pradesh minister's aide on the same day". The report called for an inquiry into "deep links" between the entrepreneur and Laxmikant Sharma. Reactions from those whose travel was paid for by Sudhir Sharma, according to Income Tax report:
"What's
wrong if the party pays for my ticket?" said Prabhat Jha, former
president of BJP in Madhya Pradesh
"The
party office booked my ticket. I have no link to Sudhir Sharma"
- Dharmendra Pradhan, the union minister mentioned in the income tax
report
"No
comment, the CBI investigation is on" - Anil Dave, BJP Rajya Sabha
member
No
comment from Suresh Soni of RSS. BJP said he was cleared by the
state investigators who handled the Vyapam scam till the CBI took over
this week.
Vyapam troubles loom for RSS: probe threatens to drag in Sangh Parivar elders
Vyapam accused Mihir Kumar, a former sewadar (assistant) to
the late Sudarshan, in a written statement before the STF admitted having got
job with the state weights and measures department in 2012 fraudulently: "After filling the application forms, I gave
photocopies of them to the late Sudarshanji, who was the former RSS chief. I
was Sudarshanji's sewadar. I requested him to help me clear the test so that I
could get a job. Sudarshanji asked Laxmikant Sharma (former state minister now
in jail in connection with the scam) to make sure that I cleared the test.
Sharma assured Sudarshanji that the work would be done. Sudarshanji told me
that I should attempt questions that I could and leave the rest blank. I
answered some 50-60 questions correctly and left the others blank as
instructed. When the results came out on October 18, 2012, I was seventh on the
merit list," Mihir Kumar had told STF. Former MPPEB examination controller Pankaj Trivedi, who is
in jail on charges of complicity in the recruitments in the weights and
measures department, also reportedly told investigators that Laxmikant, told
him that "Mihir is a very important candidate and Soniji's man". In the face of looming trouble, the message emerging from
the Parivar huddles is loud and clear: drown the Congress campaign on Vyapam
with aggression on the streets..
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