OROP : WILL THE PRIME MINISTER ASK THE REAL ARUN JAITLEY TO PLEASE STAND UP ?

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WILL THE PRIME  MINISTER ASK THE REAL ARUN JAITLEY TO PLEASE STAND UP ?
                               BY
               RAM JETHMALANI​

MONDAY, 13 JULY 2015

 

Will the PM ask the real Arun Jaitley to                      please stand up?

 

My critics love to accuse me that whenever I criticise

                            Arun Jaitley for his

                     anti national activities,

I tend to sound very personal. Let me assure them and

my readers that I have no interest in Jaitley’s personal

life or any of his activities if they are confined to it. But

if his actions as a person, private or public, compromise

public good or our national interest, no force on earth

                             will keep me quiet.

 

 

I have written enough about how his actions as finance

minister have done  everything that is possible to 

ensure that  black money abroad  never returns to India.



 He has packed the Enforcement Directorate, who are

key to the SIT for Black Money, with persons of

questionable antecedents, many former henchmen of the

former Finance Minister, P Chidambaram, for whom he

has appeared as lawyer in the Fairfax case. And now the

appointment of the CVC, Mr. K V Chowdary, former

Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes

(under Chidambaram) for which Jaitley is reported to

have been present in the Selection Committee, (of which

he is not and was not member), only confirms in my mind

that his actions are anti national.



 Chowdary, the new CVC, against whom there are reams

of evidence of irregularity and impropriety, is many

shades worse than ‘tainted Thomas’ who appears so tame

now, whose selection by the previous Prime Minister

drew outrage in the nation. The Prime Minister is surely

aware that the highest flak he is receiving for anti-

national decisions, whether for the black money issue or

the selection of the tainted CVC, are all the result of the

public action of Arun Jaitley.


 And the question everyone is asking is how the Prime




Minister allowed all this to happen.


 

 

The Central Vigilance Commission is required to be an

office in combating corruption and he himself should be

possessed of unquestionable integrity. Holders of such

office have not to prove beyond reasonable doubt to

have this great qualification. This is required when a

person is to be convicted of crime and sentenced to

punishment prescribed by criminal law. I had four heavy

bundle of evidence of his complete unfitness for the

office of CVC yet the gentlemen was appointed after I

had sent one bundle to the Prime Minister and promised

to send 3 more without any delay. The Finance Minister’s

certificate of fitness proves nothing but it certainly

proves beyond doubt that Mr. Jaitley is not fit to be a

Finance Minister who is not even a member of Cabinet

Committee of Appointments. Yet he participated in the

process. It reflects on the Prime Minister too. I do not

wish to say more because the matter will be hopefully

thrashed out in courts of law or the Sovereign People of

India.



 

 

I was quite surprised to see an article in the May edition

of the Caravan magazine that does an in depth analysis of

Jaitley’s rise to power, how he managed always to step

higher, through a deliberate cultivation of the media, the

power brokers, corporate, the glitterati, and the

influence and power that he came to acquire over them,

officially and unofficially. Media moghuls, many of them

his good friends, refused to publish any information that

exposed or criticised his questionable, and sometimes

corrupt actions.



I give my highest compliments for Caravan magazine, for

their courageous piece “Talk of the Town”, despite the

facts they are writing forthrightly about not only the

present Minister for Information and Publicity, but also

the Finance Minister, with his intimidating outfit called

the Enforcement Directorate.

 

 

The article explains Arun Jaitley’s steady rise to the

commanding heights that we perceive today, beginning

from his student union days of 1974,


riding a well calculated, well orchestrated strategy right

from the start of net-working, disinformation and

manipulation, and befriending and controlling the media.


He realised the strategic necessity of befriending media

captains. He used the latter as his political career

progressed to stifle information about his murky side

in some of the prestigious Indian newspapers of some

extremely dubious legal opinions given regarding

allocation of coal blocs, a scam that the BJP was loudly

accusing the UPA Government of.





These facts were effectively obliterated from the

mainstream national media. So too, have his past

relations with Chidambaram and NDTV, with Vodaphone,

and Ketan Parekh who faced charges of defrauding the

Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank, been deleted

by mainstream media.

 

He also cultivated the right Delhi durbar style for building

up his social, corporate and media constituency, in lieu

of the political constituency that he so badly lacked, all

of it based on expediency to move on, and not ideology.

And with their support he appears to have become

master of the plantation industry – for planting stories and

entrenching disinformation about his political foes and

friends, and people whom he wanted to demolish.

Several leaks planted in media, that have tried to damage

reputation of many of his party colleagues are reportedly

traced to him.

 

According to the Caravan article, Jaitley appears to have

hobnobbed with every important politician of the

Congress, the BJP and other parties, and is a

pathological gossip and bad mouther, even of his

friends and political leaders, including Prime Minister

Vajpayee, and Advani, who has been his greatest

benefactor. He hobnobbed with the Judiciary as Law

Minister, misused his power, particularly regarding

appointment of judges, inspite of advice and opinions

from the IB.


 

 

His relationship with Narendra Modi seems interesting. To

begin with, both were trying to draw advantage from

each other’s strengths. Jaitley, a suave English speaking

Delhi durbari with no political base, but by now, with a

vast high society, business and media network; and Modi

with a vast political base, but no savvy, sophisticated

Delhi durbar. In the Vajpayee years, Jaitley had to play

second fiddle to Promod Mahajan, who was much higher

in the BJP pecking order, but after Mahajan’s death, he

found his great opportunity to rise within the party.

 

 

His elections from Amritsar was a disaster, but Modi

instead rewarded him and for whatever reason, placed

Defence and Finance in his control. His ironfist in velvet

glove romance with the press continues, more so, after

he was removed from Defence, and given the ministry of

Information and Broadcasting, where he can call the

shots with greater force to black our stories about his

own misdeeds.

 

 

I had warned Modi ji not to set him up as the party

candidate and I assured him that he will lose



. My advice was based on my belief shared by millions

that Jaitley

is a member of the notorious 160 club which

hoped and worked on the project of ensuring that BJP

does not get an absolute majority in Lok Sabha.


 

 

His role as President of Delhi and District Cricket

Association a post he is said to have headed for 13 years,

has brought to light by eminent veteran cricketers like

Bishen Singh Bedi and Kirti Azad, smacks of nothing less

than manipulation, nepotism and corruption. The usual

cheap corruption tricks of a low level minion,

construction of a stadium, falsification of bills and

accounts. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs constituted a

three-member team of the Serious Fraud Investigation

Office to investigate Azad’s claims, but by the time the

SFIO’s report was completed, in March 2014, Jaitley was

no longer DDCA president, and he did not contest the

2013 election. The SFIO’s report confirmed Azad’s

allegations of financial irregularity, but Jaitley managed

to escape any indictment for the corruption under his

watch. Clearly, a scam closed up by the scamster who

occupies a position of great power in our country.