Since the last week or so the TV channels and the newspapers are abuzz feeding the people with the different scams. The BJP is involved both at the Centre and in a couple of states ruled by it. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is at the centre of a major row over helping scam-tainted former IPL chief Lalit Modi to obtain British travel documents, when he is under the lens of the Enforcement Directorate for FEMA violations to the tune of Rs 425 crore in IPL TV rights deal and a blue corner notice is pending against him. On her part she has said that she acted on humanitarian grounds as Lalit Modi wanted to meet his wife ailing from cancer in Portugal.
Present Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje is in the docks charged of backing the fugitive Lalit Modi’s immigration application in UK in 2011, when she was the leader of opposition in the Rajasthan government. She has however feigned ignorance over signing any such document. If the charges are proved she can be in real trouble. We would like to reiterate that any act committed against the law is a crime and if the person is proved guilty one has to face the consequences.
But in this backdrop it is exciting to know that the maximum noise is being made by the Congress party, whose ministers during the UPA rule had run havoc in the country particularly with respect to two of the worst scams, namely the coal blocks allocation and the spectrum sale, that had caused losses to the tune of lakhs of crores of rupees.
That apart, whose making is the fugitive Lalit Modi after all? Was he not elevated to the post of IPL chief during the UPA rule, which is the ugly cause of all the mess? Were not UPA bigwigs like Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, Shashi Tharoor and Rajiv Shukla a part of the Lalit-Modi-Gate scandal? Was not UPA in power when Lalit Modi was found guilty of IPL scam and was wanted in the country to face the charges? When there is an extradition treaty with UK why was no effort done by the Congress-led UPA to extradite him to India from 2010 to 2014?
One party embroiled in the worst crimes of our era is digging into the faults of another party! I am writing this on 25 June, recollecting that on this very day exactly 40 years ago, the Indira Gandhi led Congress party had imposed emergency in our country, reckoned as the darkest era in independent India.
