Sandipan Sharma - Kejriwal is hypocrite for opposing CBI raids, but what do we call BJP leaders?
The CBI is, of course, unbiased and independent.
When it filed a chargesheet against BJP leader LK Advani in
the Jain Hawala case, the Congress told us the probe was not politically
motivated. We had no reasons to doubt it, convinced as we were with the
agency's stellar record on Bofors. When it arrested Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter
case, Narendra Modi protested its
proactive role, saying, "Today CBI has thousands of cases that are
pending, so why is Gujarat given the priority? This shows that there is
politics behind it." But, we ignored our future prime minister because we
loved the CBI.
When the agency chargesheeted Rajasthan home minister Gulab
Chand Kataria in the Sohrabuddin case and dragged him to Gujarat for
questioning, Arun Jaitley fumed, "The CBI charge-sheet against Kataria is
without any basis. He is known for his credibility. The case is being pursued
by the CBI with the intention of implicating senior BJP leaders at the behest
of the Congress." But we shrugged it off as a political rant.
No, the CBI is never inspired by political vendetta.
A few months ago, Ashok Singhvi, a principal secretary in
the Vasundhara Raje government was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Department after he was caught allotting mines for money. Since his
arrest, the government has been forced to rescind the lease for thousands of
mines in the state. When the Congress demanded a CBI enquiry into the scam, it
went ahead and booked state Congress chief Sachin Pilot and former chief
minister Ashok Gehlot in an old case.
The CBI, of course, acts immediately when a case involving
public interest is involved. Like it did after thousands of students were cheated and
deprived of jobs under Shiv Raj, hundreds were thrown out from colleges, dozens
committed suicide or were killed, senior ministers were arrested for running a
money-for-jobs racket with brokers and fixers and many officers--including the
personal staff of the CM – were chargesheeted for corruption. That it
acted on a day the Supreme Court was scheduled to intervene in the Vyapam scam,
of course, was mere coincidence.
Everything is, of course, coincidence.
The office of a senior bureaucrat in the Arvind Kejriwal gets raided
just a day after the Delhi High Court slams the Ministry of Railways for its
ill-time demolition drive that leaves many homeless at the mercy of cruel
winter. Chief ministers considered inimical to the BJP come under
the CBI scanner one after the other. The Himachal Pradesh chief minister gets
humiliated on the day of his daughter's wedding, the noose tightens around West
Bengal CM's neck just days before the BJP unleashes its ambitious Vidhan Sabha
campaign in the state.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, third time a pattern
or enemy action? No, silly, every time it is just coincidence. No, the BJP never called the CBI Congress Bureau of
Investigation. When the Supreme Court called it a caged parrot, perhaps it was
talking about its stellar quality of repeating what it is taught, wagging its
tail in front of its masters and never biting the hand that feeds it.
Yes, Kejriwal is a hypocrite for protesting the first-ever
raid in democratic, federal India by the CBI on the CM's office. Did he not,
before becoming the CM, argue that the agency be not forced to seek prior
permission before acting.
But, then, what do we call the BJP and its leaders, who
stalled a CBI probe into Vyapam till a petitioner knocked on the doors of the
Supreme Court, and put a stop to the case involving questionable transactions
between Lalit Modi and Vasundhara Raje's son even after
promising a probe in the Delhi High Court?
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