Finally, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested. He was arrested when his residence was raided due to non-appearance even after 9 summons by the ED, he was arrested for not answering questions in the tail and not cooperating in the investigation. Delhi court sent him on 6-day remand to Enforcement Directorate. Earlier, Kejriwal had rejected all summons of the ED saying that they were illegal. To avoid arrest, he has appealed from the lower court to the Supreme Court, but he did not get any relief. He has been arrested under the liquor scam. He has also been issued summons for financial irregularities in the Delhi Jal Board. Many big leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party Manish Sisodia, Satyendra Jain, Sanjay Singh, etc., who came to power in the name of doing clean and honest politics dedicated to the country, are still in jail and they have not been able to get bail from even the Supreme Court.
Earlier, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren had to go to jail in a corruption case. There have been countless cases of corruption in West Bengal, in which many ministers and MLAs are in jail. In Tamil Nadu, minister Senthil Balaji is in jail, and many are on their way to jail. Chief ministers and their ministers of several states are on the radar of investigative agencies and many of them are likely to go to jail soon. The constituents of the Congress-led INDI Alliance have been accusing the central government of misusing investigative agencies but so far the leaders who have been sent to jail by the agencies have not been granted bail by any court, which shows how strong and adequate evidences are available against them. In contrast, no opposition party has been able to bring forth any issue of corruption related to the last 10 years of the Modi government in the current political scenario of India, this will be called the biggest achievement of the Modi government. Strengthening and giving the right direction to the Indian economy is also not a small task and along with this, providing free ration, pucca houses, toilets, tap water, free gas cylinders and Kisan Samman Nidhi to the large population of the country is a very remarkable task. There is no anti-incumbency against the Modi government because of such a large beneficiary class, development-oriented schemes, effective action on internal security and terrorism. India's respect has increased in the global arena and Modi is known as a very successful and popular global politician. In such a situation, there is no doubt about the formation of the BJP government for the third time, which the opposition also know very well, but the allegations and counter-allegations is compulsion of opposition.
Corruption is a major disease of India, and despite all the efforts, there is no sign of reducion. The biggest reason for this is political corruption, which started even before the country got independence. After independence, political parties did all kinds of corruption to gain power and the biggest reason for the serious challenges facing the nation today is corruption. All governments and political parties made big promises from time to time to end corruption, but nothing special happened on the ground. If we leave the last 10 years of the Modi government in which there is no serious allegation of corruption against the government, there has not been a single government at the Centre after independence which has not been accused of corruption.
No Congress government remained untouched by this. Even before the country's first general election, during the first government of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951, the Mundra scandal had surfaced, his son-in-law Feroze Khan Gandhi had exposed it, but Nehru settled it by sacrificing his finance minister TT Krishnamachari. There were also allegations of corruption in raising election funds in setting up government undertakings. During Indira Gandhi's tenure, there were serious allegations of kickbacks in defense deals. The infamous Nagarwala incident that took place during his time is still counted among the infamous scams of history. In 1973, the Maruti scam hit the headlines, in which Sonia Gandhi was appointed managing director of the company without any technical or managerial qualification. Rajiv Gandhi, popularly known as Mr Clean, was accused of receiving bribes in the Bofors scam through Sonia Gandhi's relative Quattrocchi. The HDW submarine scandal had exposed his government. His government could not return becuse of the issue of corruption. The PV Narasimha Rao government of the Congress was stuck in the "note for vote" in managing a majority. The Harshad Mehta case also happened in between. Both the terms of the Congress-led UPA governments from 2004 to 2013 were synonymous of corruption. Many scams like 2G, Colgate, Satyam, Hassan Ali Tax Scam, Devas Antrix uused to come up every day. Scams like National Herald, Vadra DLF, AgustaWestland helicopter, Commonwealth Games, are still fresh in people's memory. Both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are out on bail in the National Herald scam.
Sukh Ram's telecom scam and Ketan Parikh's financial scam grabbed headlines during the Janata Dal coalition government. The then Defense Minister George Fernandes was accused of the coffin scam in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
It is not that scams happened only in the central governments; the state governments also did not lag behind. After the formation of governments of regional parties, there was a flood of scams. Almost every regional party did rampant corruption to increase its supremacy, retain power and by adopting the policy of Muslim appeasement in the greed of votes, not only worked against Hindu unity and Sanatan Dharma but also compromised with national unity and integrity at every step, the consequences of which the whole country is suffering. Lalu Prasad Yadav, leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, a key constituent of the Congress-led INDI Alliance, has been convicted in several corruption cases and many cases are still going on, in which the land-for-job case is prominent and there is a possibility of major punishment. So far, he has been sentenced to 32.5 years of imprisionment in five cases. He is currently out on parole for medical treatment. The amount of jail sentence he has to serve may not be possible in his present lifetime, but he is campaigning for the party, abusing Prime Minister Modi, attending coalition meetings and also sharing the stage with other leaders in public rallies. Other leaders also have no objection to this, because most of them are involved in some or other scams. This facility and his audacity to a convicted prisoner is not only an abuse of the law, but a flouting of the law. Perhaps this is a weakness of the Indian law.
The current political system of India is the biggest reason for the plight of the country and this system has been provisioned in the Constitution. A multi-party-political system copied by imitating Britain's electoral system is not suitable for India. It is because of this system there is unethical competition between different parties. Politics has become an industry in India. Regional parties have also become old-time kings through politics, which is hollowing out India financially and politically. Religion and caste are used extensively by these parties to woo voters, this has made Hindu society more fragmented than ever in the internal structural system. Social harmony is decreasing day by day. Limit of Muslim appeasement has been broken to take advantage of religious polarization and now all out efforts are being made to break Hindu society. Communal disparity is being created in the name of forwards, backwards, Dalits, tribals and minorities.
So far, only regional parties used to provoke caste sentiments, but now a national political party like the Congress, which claims to be contractor of independence of the country, advocates Muslim interests, is also strongly advocating caste census and trying to prove it as the only medicine of every disease and preparing the background for caste conflict. It is unfortunate that the leader of the grand old party, Rahul Gandhi, during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, spoke prominently only on the caste census and in a way provoked people for class / cast war. Parties like the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu have crossed all limits of Muslim appeasement along with creating caste divisions, but such irresponsible conduct was not expected from the Congress.
All opposition parties are making noise over the action being taken against corruption by the investigating agencies and calling it a politically motivated step. The Modi government's ability to act quietly and fearlessly without any adverse reaction has become its biggest strength, drawing huge support from the people. The opposition is getting weaker due to the unrestrained rhetoric being made by them. In such a situation, he himself is clearing the way for Narendra Modi's coronation for the third time. It is the responsibility of the people of the country to support the party which understands the serious challenges before the nation and can discharge its responsibility by solving them successfully. There is a dire need for a two-party system in the country, the government should seriously consider this.
~~~~~~~Shiv Mishra ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(This article has appeared in today's newspaper, a copy of which is attached)
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