Although people in India are cautiously welcoming the ongoing anti-corruption raids on opposition party leaders and their families, viewing them as proof of the federal government’s resolve to fight corruption, others see what has been happening as amounting to a political vendetta by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The selective targeting and timing of the raids ahead of opposition plans to forge a grand alliance to fight the 2019 national elections raise suspicion about the government’s true intentions. Some allege they are being conducted simply to divide the opposition parties.
The troubles started last week with a Delhi High Court ruling clearing the way for income tax proceedings against top Congress party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case.
The Congress party suffered another blow on Tuesday when Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials raided the home of former finance minister P Chidambaram’s son, Karti Chidambaram, in Chennai, over suspected foreign exchange violations.
Chidambaram already faces an investigation over his role in the Aircel-Maxis case. It is alleged he gave illegal clearance to the Malaysian firm Axis to buy Aircel, a mobile network operator based in Gurgaon, in Haryana state, through foreign direct investment in 2006.
Tuesday’s multiple raids were conducted to ascertain whether Chidambaram misused his position as finance minister in 2007 to facilitate kickbacks for his son by clearing foreign investment payments worth Rs3,050 million (US$47 million) to a media firm, INX.
Read full article at Asia Times >>>
RELATED POSTS:
In response to questions about Britain's overseas aid budget,David Cameron has said at the United Nations that rather than cutting aid to developing nations in these austere times UK taxpayers should be happy it is being increased. Meanwhile with her own millions safely tied up in trusts Hillary Clinton demands global wealth taxes to raise money for helping the disadvantaged.
Overeducated Elitist Snobs Go For World DominationWe have written many times with tongues in our cheeks of The New World Order but what are we talking about. Is it a conspiracy theory like The Illuminati, are there shape shifting lizards involved. We wish, but sadly it is just a concensus political movement that blurs the lines betwen old parties but hardens those betwee the political, academic and financial elite and the lowrer orders. Find out how it operates below ...
The Two Faces Of The Politics Of FailureWhat a mess the modern way of doing politics based on a politically correct consensus and social engineering has produced. The daily stirrer looks at how the bipolar left - right divide stops things getting better rather than helping get the developed world back on track.
Climate Change and the Population Explosion
In all the debates about climate change and the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on the environment there is one issue that has a huge bearing on humanity's relationship with our planet that neither politicians nor scientists will discuss. Population growth. So a philosopher has to step up to the mark and ask why people are encouraged to have children when we face so many population related problems?
Cotton Price Inflation
The Madness Of The Carbon Accounting System
Life Expectancy Rises By 44 Days In One Year
The Human Cost Of Cheap Clothing
Food Crisis Control Freakery
Climate Change and Population Control
Too Many People
Greenteeth Elsewhere: [ The Original Boggart Blog] ... [ Writerbeat ] ... [ Daily Stirrer.shtml ]...[Little Nicky Machiavelli]... [ Ian's Authorsden Pages ]... [ It's Bollocks My Dears, All Bollocks ] [Scribd]...[Wikinut] ... [ Boggart Abroad] ... [ Grenteeth Bites ] ... [ Latest Posts ] [Ian Thorpe at Flickr ] ... [Latest Posts] ... [ Tumblr ] ... [ Authorsden blog ] ... [Daily Stirrer Headlines]
[ Ian at Facebook ]
No comments:
Post a Comment