Machiavelli is credited with the following: “If an injury is to be inflicted on an enemy, it is to be so severe, that the enemy’s retaliation need not be feared”. Since we are talking about politics, the injury etc. is of political rather than mortal nature. If Lalu Yadav were in jail (which is where he belongs), do you think Nitish Kumar would have won Bihar and hurt the BJP so badly?
Consider the following tweet:
@IndiaSpeaksPR
In 2019 Cong leaders will ask "If UPA was so corrupt, then how many of us are in jail today?"
How will the PM will explain that to the people?
First of all, I am not talking revenge or punishment or destroying lives here. What I want to see is justice to prevail against those who have robbed, pillaged and hurt our country grievously. Because that is the right thing to do and it will restore people’s faith in our system.
But strictly speaking as a BJP supporter, I want the corrupt to be punished for the following reasons:
a. So that like Lalu Yadav, they cannot hurt the BJP politically. Corrupt leaders like Mayawati, Mulayam Yadav, scam tainted TMC, DMK, AIDMK, Congress leaders all must pay for their crimes. If they are all in jail, then they cannot pose any challenge to the BJP. With Vadra in jail and Gandhi family in court, defending themselves, India becomes Congress-mukt without any effort while doing the right thing. Imagine Salman Khurshid, Kapil Sibbal, Digvijay Singh and all other scam tainted Congress leaders in the court, facing music instead of making seditionist statements, embarrassing the nation.
b. The scam tainted and corrupt journalists (there were enough of them involved in 2G and NDTV was just given a show cause notice for FOREX violations) should be in jail or on the defensive. Clearly we cannot boycott them for their sins. Maybe we can get rid of them (fortunately guys like Tarun Tejpal and Hasan Suroor are already helping us out). After decades of no accountability and practicing guerilla journalism, these guys were halted in tracks by the social media further accountability needs to be introduced in the form of justice.
c. Modi Sarkar has done a good job by forcing transparency in the finances of NGOs. This will also limit foreign influence in our polity.
d. As we have said before, Bihar was won by caste arithmetic. It was not Prashant Kishore’s slick campaign (Well Mr. Kishore, aren’t you proud to have helped illiterate sons of a thief who cannot even speak their mother tongue properly?), it wasn’t Nitish Kumar’s ability (why would JD(U) lose vote percent and get less seats than RJD) and it wasn’t entirely BJP fault either (their vote percent went up). It was the Muslim-Yadav-Kurmi combination of votes. Now similar combinations are being envisaged all over the country and Prashant Kishore has become as hot a commodity as Amitabh Bachchan was in 1970s. If we lose UP, we can forget 2019 general elections. We really need to clean up UP politics by speeding up various scam and disproportionate cases. This will reduce the black money flow into UP as well as “wound” some of our biggest enemies. Passage of GST bill will not have as big an impact on poor UP voters as seeing some of their corrupt leader (especially from SP and BSP) being held accountable.
e. Of course, this also means that the corrupt and the insiders in the BJP should also be raked over coals. Last thing an honest man like the PM needs is to be accused of hypocrisy.
PM Modi’s generous overture of inviting Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh has done little to change the Congress’ behavior in Lok and Rajyasabha. Brazen lies and then false accusations by Kumari Selja is what is referred to as “Chori uspar seena-zori”. Well if they want to continue to do so then there is another saying – “laaton ke bhoot baton se nahin maantay”. Today another theory has been put forth. It may be possible that Rahul Gandhi camp may be opposed to the passage of GST bill hence they will continue to misbehave. Therefore talking to Congress has become like talking to Pakistan – do you talk to elected leaders or do you talk to the army? As the inimitable Madhu Kishwar says:
PM @narendramodi naive in thinking by burying NH fraud,foreign accounts list & countless scams of Gandhis, he can buy peace with SoniaG 1/2
It may be time to practice Subramanian Swamy style politics. All the corruption cases as mentioned above need to be fast-tracked. Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship issue should be given a very high profile. Lalu should be sent back to jail. You see, all this will be in the interest of justice and restoring the voters’ faith in the judicial system. Any benefits to the BJP will only be incidental.
