With the BJP party coming to rule in 2014, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had famously stated himself as the “Chowkidar” of the wealth of the Nation. He had very sternly made a promise to eradicate the corruption from India. All the promises made stand uncurbed. A recent survey also reveals that the corruption has immensely increased in India and the BJP government is not serious about eradicating corruption.
The BJP government has been relentlessly accusing the ministers of the opposition party against corruption. Recently, the former Union Minister P. Chidambaram was arrested for alleged corruption in the INX Media case. One common point here is, while Chidambaram was the home minister, Amit Shah was arrested by the CBI for the fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Now P. Chidambaram is arrested when Amit Shah holds the seat of home minister. Since 2014, raids and summons intensify on the members of opposition party when an election is around the corner.
Do not mistaken this as a fight against corruption. If this was a true fight then BJP leadres would not be exempted from enquiries of any sort. This selective nature of anti-corruption is a sharp contrast to the BJP government’s refusal to investigate the most controversial Rafale deal pointing a lokpal for five years.
One such case was of chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. In the year 2014 Devendra Fadnavis had accused NCP leader Ajit Pawar of the Rs. 70,000 + amount in 9 irrigation scam. Fadnavis had also issued a state anti-corruption bureau inquiry for the same. In November 2019 Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar were sworn as chief minister and deputy chief minister of Maharashtra from the BJP party. Three days later to Ajit Pawar helping Devendra Fadnavis to pull out the drawing BJP party, 9 irrigation scams files started closing by the CBI. Anti-corruption bureau’s additional director general had sought quoting that the 9 irrigation scam were not linked to then deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.
Chief justice Ranjan Gogoi is another example of increasing corruption in the clan of Indian leaders. Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had presided over the five-judge bench of the Supreme Court that had pronounced a verdict in favor of a temple at the site of the demolished Babri Masjid. A female staff of the Supreme Court had accused CJI Ranjan Gogoi for sexual harassment. The staff was prior attached to Justice Vikramjeet Sen as a junior assistant till August 2018. Two months prior to the incident on insistence of CJI Ranjan Gogoi she was transferred to Gogoi’s residence office.
Earlier in May 2019 the in-house committee had made a statement saying they found no substance in the allegations contained in the Complaint dated 19.4.2019 of a former employee of the Supreme Court of India. The three members of the in-house committee were Justices SA Bobde, NV Ramana and Indira Banerjee. The complainant objected the presence of Justuce Ramana and he was replaced by Justice Indu Malhotra. The woman refused to be a part of the committee alleging bias. The report was submitted to the next senior Judge, Justice Patnaik competent, when Justice Gogoi was still the CJI. The case was closed in approximately 21 month by bench of Justices Kaul, Bopanna and Ramasubramanian.
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