Around Nirav Modi’s arrest
As the Lok Sabha elections are approaching, the Modi government is doing everything it can to project itself as a clean government. This government which does not hesitate to use people’s nationalism for elections, is all set to wear the crown of arresting the rich who fled from India.
Vijay Mallya who had defaulted Indian banks on Rs 9,000 cr was caught in London. Diamond merchant of Gujarat Nirav Modi had defaulted Rs 13,500 cr to Punjab National Bank. Another industrialist Mittal had fled the country under similar conditions. It’s tough to believe the government didn’t know about their plans of leaving the country. Moving from one city to another is difficult enough. When that is the case, moving out of the country hoodwinking authorities across Passport, Visa, Customs and others is highly complicated unless those in power allow this to happen.
There is proof to believe the current and preceding government have a role in this bank looting issue. Industrialists like Mallya and Nirav Modi have contributed a lot to the dark phase that national banks are in today. It’s because of them that the banks are on the verge of bankruptcy. Modi government has waived off Rs 3 lakh cr corporate loans. And there are more number of people who have fled the country after milking our banks. Though the Scotland Yard cops have arrested Nirav Modi, it is difficult to get him handed over into Indian custody because India is still struggling bad to get Mallya extradited from Britain. Mallya is also a London citizen so things have turned even more complicated. Yet the legal steps relating to Mallya’s case are not even complete. Nirav Modi has been given permission to live in London for the next five years under golden visa. Hence the foreign affairs ministry has its job cut out on this task. Not just Nirav, his uncle Mehul Choksi is also needed by India and his whereabouts are a mystery now. Things have to be expedited to check his current location.
Economically the country is on the verge of collapse under the rule of RSS-dominant BJP. Modi has been lying about the economic health by presenting fudged numbers. Demonetisation that was done without the RBI permission has brought the country on its knees. Modi government’s role in Rafale deal is suspicious. Though the BJP leaders are saying Modi is not at fault, the government was taken aback when The Hindu presented facts regarding this deal. AG said to the SC that the papers were lost and this became a laughing stock, and his next statement was that the records were copied. Modi govt failed to fulfil promises made to people. Inflation, price rise has been unchecked. Now to cover for its inadequacies, Modi government is using Nirav arrest case to hide behind.
Modi never met the aggrieved directly in the last so many years he was in power nor did he even address a single press conference. Now he has started a “main bhi chowkidar’ kind of comedy show. He is doing all kinds of circus to be reelected to Parliament. Nirav Modi arrest is also one such circus. By doing things like this, RSS agenda would be quietly implemented. Swami Aseemanand’s acquittal and release in Samjhauta rail blast case has raised many suspicions. Having made mistakes like this, Modi government has heavily compromised upon CBI, RBI and such agencies to its benefit. Bringing Nirav Modi to India has rife with complications. But BJP workers should not allow this to be used for elections.
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NDA sweeps bypolls to four assembly segments in Bihar
Patna (PTI): The ruling NDA in Bihar on Saturday swept the bypolls to four assembly segments, retaining Imamganj and wresting from the INDIA bloc Tarari, Ramgarh and Belaganj, receiving a boost ahead of the assembly elections due next year.
Candidates of the Jan Suraaj, floated recently by former political strategist Prashant Kishor with much fanfare, lost deposits in all but one seat, in a clear indication that the fledgling party, despite claims of taking the political landscape in the state by storm, needs to cover much ground.
The biggest setback for the INDIA bloc, helmed by the RJD, came in Belaganj, a seat the party had been winning since its inception in the 1990s, but this time lost to the JD(U) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the arch-rival of its founding president Lalu Prasad.
The JD(U) candidate Manorama Devi, a former MLC, defeated by a margin of more than 21,000 votes RJD’s Vishwanath Kumar Singh who made his debut from a seat that fell vacant upon election to Lok Sabha of his father Surendra Prasad Yadav, a multiple term MLA.
The margin of victory was greater than the 17,285 votes polled by Mohd Amjad of Jan Suraaj, whom the RJD may have liked to blame for its defeat by causing a split in Muslim votes.
JD(U) national spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said, "The people of Bihar deserve kudos for rejecting the negativity of the opposition and reposing their trust in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Under his leadership, the NDA will win more than 200 seats of the 243-strong assembly in 2025."
The RJD also suffered an embarrassing defeat in Ramgarh, where Prashant Kishor’s prediction of the party “finishing third or fourth” came true. The forecast had caused Sudhakar Singh, son of state RJD president Jagadanand Singh, the MP from Buxar who had won the assembly seat in 2020, to threaten that Jan Suraaj cadres in the constituency will be “beaten up with sticks”.
Singh’s younger brother Ajit finished a distant third after BJP winner Ashok Kumar Singh, a former MLA, and Satish Kumar Singh Yadav who fought on a ticket of the BSP, which has little foothold in Bihar.
Jan Suraaj, though, was hardly a factor in Ramgarh, where its candidate Sushil Kumar Singh polled less than four per cent votes.
The BJP also pulled off a stunning victory in Tarari, which falls under the Arrah Lok Sabha seat, currently represented by CPI(ML)’s Sudama Prasad, who had won the assembly segment for two consecutive terms.
CPI(ML) candidate Raju Yadav lost, by a margin of a little over 10,000 votes, to BJP debutant Vishal Prashant, better known as the son of local strongman Sunil Pandey, who was formerly with the JD(U) and had joined the saffron party a few months ago.
Jan Suraaj had initially announced that it was fielding a former Vice Chief of the Army in Tarari but later disclosed that he could not contest because of technical reasons. Its candidate Kiran Singh got less than four per cent votes.
The most respectable performance from Jan Suraaj came in the reserved Imamganj seat where its candidate Jitendra Paswan stood third, polling well over 20 per cent votes.
The seat, however, went to Deepa Kumari, daughter-in-law of Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who defeated RJD’s Raushan Kumar by a slender margin of less than 6,000 votes.
Manjhi, who heads the Hindustani Awam Morcha, vacated Imamganj earlier this year upon getting elected to Lok Sabha from Gaya.
With the exception of Ashok Singh in Ramgarh, the winners in all the seats shall be making their debut in the state assembly.
