SOURCE:
WILL THE PRIME MINISTER ASK THE REAL ARUN JAITLEY TO PLEASE STAND UP ?
BY
RAM JETHMALANI
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.
WILL THE PRIME MINISTER ASK THE REAL ARUN JAITLEY TO PLEASE STAND UP ?
BY
RAM JETHMALANI
MONDAY, 13 JULY 2015
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
