“A below-the-belt blow on poll eve:"
CM Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest has shaken the conscience of the nation’s right-thinking citizens: By: Julio Ribeiro
Highlights By: Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
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Arvind Kejriwal was a regular recruit to the Indian Revenue Service through the UPSC’s civil services examination, the one in which Deshmukh and I had appeared years earlier — Deshmukh got into the IAS and I into the IPS.
Kejriwal used to arrive for work an hour before the official time and set up a small table with a chair outside the central I-T office. Applicants for I-T refunds or PAN cards could take his help to get their work completed expeditiously without payment of ‘speed money’. It worked, but not without ruffling feathers.
He displeased many of his colleagues. How many of them are in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today? Are any of them handling the investigation against him?
Would, nay could, a man so devoted to values of good governance transform overnight into an ogre bent on fattening himself on filthy lucre? To those who have had a glimpse of his personality, his thinking and his attitude of mind and heart, it seems impossible. Like in the case of AAP MP Sanjay Singh, no money has been traced to him.
Anna Hazare; Indian social activist and Arvind Kejriwal: That is a different story. Today, we are concerned with the BJP’s intricate plan of extinguishing all credible opposition to its political hegemony.
What the citizen is not accustomed to is the single-minded hounding of Opposition parties and their leaders by unleashing the ED and the I-T authorities relentlessly on their opponents to ensure an Opposition-mukt Bharat. Kejriwal’s arrest has shaken the conscience of the nation’s right-thinking citizens even more than the I-T Department’s initial order freezing the Congress’ bank accounts for the recovery of I-T dues (coercive action has now been put on hold). These are below-the-belt blows delivered by a boxer who viciously pulverises his opponent even though the latter is losing!
Among the witnesses the ED has stacked up to prove Kejriwal’s guilt, the main one is a co-accused who has turned approver on the promise of a pardon.
The BJP conceived of electoral bonds for financing the costs of fighting elections. Its pickings would hurtle it to victory because Opposition parties would be left with the crumbs. In a country where money is used to buy votes and bring down governments formed on the basis of the people’s mandate, it is not surprising that an up-and-coming party like AAP would formulate a scheme to add substance to its piggy bank.
Kejriwal has certainly not used any of the money his party has raised via the alleged kickbacks from liquor dealers, whether they hailed from the South or the North, for his personal expenses. If that is the allegation against him, no one will believe that such a thought could even enter his mind. It is equivalent to accusing the chowkidar of being a thief!
Among the witnesses the ED has stacked up to prove Kejriwal’s guilt, the main one is a co-accused who has turned approver on the promise of a pardon. That same approver bought electoral bonds worth crores of rupees days after he turned approver and was set free on bail. The approver’s father, Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, has been given the ticket by the Telugu Desam Party, a BJP ally, from the Ongole Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh.
The old man who delivers my newspapers is my sounding board for what the poorer citizens think of political events. “Poor Kejriwal,” he said, “he had done much for the jhuggi-jhopri dwellers of Delhi in the fields of education and health and given them free electricity. Now, he will languish in jail unless he joins the BJP.”
Would ever be the true secularism, impartial and clean political alerts, anti-polarization, non anti-downtrodden votes decide as an independent factor of the outcome of Indian Democracy?
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Highlights Forwarded By: Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
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