Is sheher ko hua kya? What happened to this city? This is the first sentence spoken in the advertisements shown in theatres before film starts. It seems supporters of BJP are asking same question to the party they support!
Close on the heels of arrest of eleven men in Madhya Pradesh for being the part of an international call racket helping ISI to channelize funds to J&K separatists, came the news of a child trafficking racket been busted in West Bengal. Sadly, names of people associated with BJP have cropped in both cases.
In the month of February, one Dhruv Saxena was also arrested for laundering money so that ISI can pay to their agents, along with the prime accused Balaram. Dhruv Saxena was a BJP member functioning with the IT cell, to be exact, although the party denies any connection. Another one arrested in this case is Ashish Singh Rathore, was sacked from being the Bajrang Dal’s Cow Protection body. Well, congratulating ATS for busting this racket may be one thing but that is how an investing agency is supposed to function, without any influence from the government. It is their job.
Yesterday, Juhi Choudhury, BJP’s women’s wing chief of Jalpaiguri was arrested for allegedly selling babies, under the guise of an NGO.
Chandana Chakraborty, head of the NGO was arrested last month and she spilled beans about the involvement of Juhi.
Juhi was purportedly using her party position to influence Roopa Ganguly through Kailash Vijayvargiya, to get her NGO’s license renewed and avail some central government funds as well. Both popular BJP leaders in their states are now being investigated by WB police to check whether they knew of the designs of Juhi, beforehand.
If proved true, this is not first time in Indian history that Indians helped enemies. We have as many Jaichands. They might have their day, but traitors are considered worse than the enemy.
Post win in general elections, BJP is on an expansion spree with a long term aim of decimating the Congress. Perhaps, in the drive to enhance their reach, they are including people whose backgrounds were not checked. Or were they old members, who were exposed only when caught?
Nationalists like to see the country ruled by a party that stands for India. BJP happens to represent nationalism and so they are supported. Though the core of BJP was formed by RSS cadre, it is the overwhelming support of apolitical people fed up with the corruption and pseudo-secularism of Congress that they voted for BJP. If BJP wishes to remain in power, it is incumbent on its part not to become like Congress.
The suicide note of Kalikho Pul, detailed the history of Prema Khandu and his father Dorjee Khandu. Pul has detailed how the Khandu duo got hundreds of crores inflating the PDS bills and manipulating invoices of other contracts. So much so that ‘National Herald’ of Rahul Gandhi now ridiculed BJP for snatching away corruption tainted leaders from Congress.
Though in the eyes of supporters, BJP is naïve in politics, but they never appreciate the party losing morals.
Unlike Congress supporters, BJP supporters are not loyal to the party, but for the country. If expansion managers of BJP think they can grow the party by including friends of enemies, baby sellers and corrupt leaders from other parties, they are thinking lightly of the people who voted them to power. If people know how to make a Prime Minister out of a Chaiwala, people also know how to teach lesson to a party that preaches Nationalism but functions like Congress.
In fact, these news bulletins are so disturbing so much so that they turn most optimistic of people into pessimists. And as one pessimist puts it “What’s the change in the rule? From Arabs to Mughals to Indians? As long as the rule retains same character i.e., exploiting citizens, it doesn’t matter who is ruling. If foreign rule amounts to killed by others, self-rule is similar to committing suicide.
Maybe BJP needs to truly introspect its functioning. Not only the objective, but even the means of achieving it should be correct. Before the cancer of corruption and immorality spreads across the party, it is better for the party to get rid of these elements. This is the land of Dharma and Karma and so traitors and baby sellers should be punished and not be part of polity. The Good part is that she has already been suspended from the party.