Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidates' claim about ushering in an era of corruption., graft and nepotism free governance suffered yet another grievous body blow what with his close aide and "campwallah" being arrested by the anti corruption bureau on charges of demanding and accepting an exorbitant bribe from another member of his own party..........
In what must surely come as a major embarrassment and heart ache to the saffron party's poster boy, his close aide and confidante Ganesh Malviya (he happens to be the co-convenor of Modi's very own election cell) was ensnared in a trap by the anti corruption sleuths from the nation's premier investigation agency (CBI) on Saturday while he was in the process of accepting an illegal gratification of Rs. 10 lakh from another member of his own party.......
What must come as even more of an eye opener and reality check to Modi is the unsavoury and unpalatable fact that the CBI had laid out this intricate and elaborate web at the behest of one Rajesh Bhadoria (a state level BJP leader) who had lodged a complaint to the CBI against Malviya and his better half.........
According to a CBI official who is an integral part of the team investigating this case, Malviya's better half (legally wedded wife) had demanded a "reward" of Rs. 25 lakhs from Bhadoria (owner of a construction company called Ramayan Constructions) in order to take care of adjust his firm's supposedly faulty or discrepant Income Tax Returns.........
The CBI team also seized Rs. 2.5 lakh in cash and undisclosed amounts of gold and silver jewellery as well as the keys of four bank lockers from the Malviya residence (in addition to the Rs. 10 lakh demanded as a bribe), the accused duo was produced before a metropolitan magistrate on Saturday afternoon and the legal functionary remanded them to CBI custody till April 1...........
As expected the arrest of the Malviya's, provided further fodder for the grist mills of the opposition parties in Madhya Pradesh with the main opposition (Congress party) lodging an official complaint with the State Election Committee and demanding a time bound, fair and impartial probe into the incident.......
Some self styled experts even went to the extent of branding the incident as a bitter fallout of the fratricidal or intercenine warfare that seems to have erupted within the ranks of the saffron party's bigwigs; one of them on condition of anonymity pithily remarked, "there is a rapidly growing section within the party that is extremely uncomfortable with Modi's new found popularity and increasing clout, hence this latest attempt to cut him down to size".......
Whatever, may be the reason or urging behind this unsavoury and unpalatable episode, the fact of the matter is that the same has raised new found doubts and numerous questions about Modi's ability to usher in a corruption and graft free regime when he is woefully incapable of setting his own house in order and managing the wranglings within the same.......
In what must surely come as a major embarrassment and heart ache to the saffron party's poster boy, his close aide and confidante Ganesh Malviya (he happens to be the co-convenor of Modi's very own election cell) was ensnared in a trap by the anti corruption sleuths from the nation's premier investigation agency (CBI) on Saturday while he was in the process of accepting an illegal gratification of Rs. 10 lakh from another member of his own party.......
What must come as even more of an eye opener and reality check to Modi is the unsavoury and unpalatable fact that the CBI had laid out this intricate and elaborate web at the behest of one Rajesh Bhadoria (a state level BJP leader) who had lodged a complaint to the CBI against Malviya and his better half.........
According to a CBI official who is an integral part of the team investigating this case, Malviya's better half (legally wedded wife) had demanded a "reward" of Rs. 25 lakhs from Bhadoria (owner of a construction company called Ramayan Constructions) in order to take care of adjust his firm's supposedly faulty or discrepant Income Tax Returns.........
The CBI team also seized Rs. 2.5 lakh in cash and undisclosed amounts of gold and silver jewellery as well as the keys of four bank lockers from the Malviya residence (in addition to the Rs. 10 lakh demanded as a bribe), the accused duo was produced before a metropolitan magistrate on Saturday afternoon and the legal functionary remanded them to CBI custody till April 1...........
As expected the arrest of the Malviya's, provided further fodder for the grist mills of the opposition parties in Madhya Pradesh with the main opposition (Congress party) lodging an official complaint with the State Election Committee and demanding a time bound, fair and impartial probe into the incident.......
Some self styled experts even went to the extent of branding the incident as a bitter fallout of the fratricidal or intercenine warfare that seems to have erupted within the ranks of the saffron party's bigwigs; one of them on condition of anonymity pithily remarked, "there is a rapidly growing section within the party that is extremely uncomfortable with Modi's new found popularity and increasing clout, hence this latest attempt to cut him down to size".......
Whatever, may be the reason or urging behind this unsavoury and unpalatable episode, the fact of the matter is that the same has raised new found doubts and numerous questions about Modi's ability to usher in a corruption and graft free regime when he is woefully incapable of setting his own house in order and managing the wranglings within the same.......
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