Sahara and Birla

Rahul Gandhi on 21/12/2016 at Mehsana said Narendra Modi when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat had received 40 crore rupees from Sahara and 12 crore rupees from Birla. That set off reactions. Rahul Gandhi had not said anything new. Arvind Kejriwal had said this. Prashant Bhushan represents Common Cause in a PIL regarding Sahara and Birla payments to Modi. TMC leaders said they had raised the issue two years back.
Ravi Shankar Prasad said the allegations against Modi were baseless, false, shameful, and mala fide and reflected Rahul Gandhi’s frustration in leading his party to disastrous defeats in state after state. He has been disturbed over the AgustaWestland probe. Congressmen and the family have been named in the AgustaWestland investigations. Rahul Gandhi is on bail in the National Herald case, a case of serious cheating and fraud. Narendra Modi is an epitome of honesty and pure like Ganga.
Ganga is not pure. It is dirty and polluted. It has been that way for more than 30 years. Ravi Shankar Prasad should have known that.
Some wondered is this the earthquake Rahul Gandhi had promised. He had said he has evidence of personal corruption against Modi and if he speaks in Parliament there will be an earthquake. BJP was not allowing him to talk in Parliament. MPs have immunity for what they say in Parliament. The guess was that he wanted immunity.
Where was the earthquake? Gaurav Gogoi said the earthquake was in BJP office. Chandan Mitra said people were laughing in BJP office. One journalist said according to sources in Congress the purpose was served. On TV channels people are discussing what Rahul Gandhi said.
It is not only politicians who receive favours from companies. Journalists also receive. One Essar employee had revealed names of politicians and journalists who had received favours from Essar. Not much happened.
Radia tapes had revealed the relationship between industrialists, corporates, journalists, politicians and bureaucrats.
Companies mostly pay to politicians in cash. They want the payments to remain secret. Few companies pay in cheque to political parties.
No Indian English news channel has reported Directorate of Revenue Intelligence investigations into five Adani companies. There is charge of fake invoices of import of coal from Indonesia mentioning inflated prices. Adani has accounts in Cayman Islands.
Sahara file has names of more than 100 politicians belonging to 18 or more parties. It has name of Sheila Dikshit who was CM of Delhi for 15 years and is Congress UP CM candidate. When asked about her Congress members said let there be investigation about her. There are other BJP leaders like Shivraj Singh Chouhan in the list. Congress is not bothered about them. Their target is Narendra Modi. In the political chess game between Congress and BJP, for Congress Narendra Modi is the BJP king who has to be captured. Sheila Dikshit is a pawn. If she goes, so be it. It is a small price to pay.