Hyderabad, Oct.9 (NSS): India Against Corruption’s exposure on none other than Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of CongressPresident Sonia Gandhi, the first family of 125-year-old Congress Party, has raised many questions on probity and propriety of corporate deals.
And, the barrage of responses of battery’s of Congress Party spokespersons including H K Bharadwaj, the Governor of Karnataka, the DLF clarifications and Vadra’s first response have attempted to create more confusion than lending clarity to the issue.
Tavleen Singh bold attempt to equate the controversy with that of Jaganmohan Reddy in the disproportionate case was brushed aside in his inimitable cavalier way by Manish Tiwari highlighting that Jagan is a public figure having been a two time MP whereas Robert Vadra is a private individual whose rights are enshrined in the Constitution.
What a farcical justification? If Jagan has been sent to “Chenchalagud” jail in disproportionate assets case, surely Vadra should be sent also to ‘Tihar” Jail in disproportionate assets case? Why is the income tax authority which otherwise serves notices on farmers and demands “muster rolls of laborer’s employed, tractor expenditure and market yard receipts for sale of vegetable products, keeping mum on Robert Vadras disproportionate accumulation of wealth? Chidambaram’s clean chit as Finance Minister does not augur well for probity and propriety.
Is Robert Vadra, despite spirited defence by the High Command coterie, a public figure or not? Is it not true that tax payers money is being spent on providing security to him in the name of his wife Priyanka and also to his children?
If he is not a public figure, why is he being allowed to commute without mandatory security check in all airports? During the last elections, he has gone around as public figure in electoral campaigning in UP and even has boasted his claims to the demands of people to contest in Sultanpur constituency.
Come along cronies of Congress High Command, you cannot fool people all the time by such ridiculous explanations.
Truth is bitter. All those who attempt to justify ‘Robert Vadra’s” rise from “wood, brass and fake jewellery to Gold, Platinum and Diamond” status must lie low instead of fooling themselves before people
IAC activist Arvind Kejriwal and well-known legal luminary Prashanth Bhushan, have made startling revelations of how a real estate company DLF has extended Rs 65 crore interest free loan, now claimed as business advance to Robert Vadara. If the Rs 65 crore interest free loan or advance to Vadara from DLF is not ‘quid pro quo’ arrangement, then what else it is? More are to follow.
Even in the case of Jagan, the charges leveled against him are somewhat similar – benefits from the largess’s in the form of lands being allotted by his later father Dr Y SRajasekhara Reddy, as Chief Minister of the state. In the case of Jagan, at least hefty taxes have been paid to income tax department.
If the presumptions of either honorable Courts or the investigating agencies like CBI and Enforcement Directorate that Jagan indeed benefited from his father’s largess’s to Corporate’s, then Vadara, being the son-in-law of most powerful family, who had sway on 121 million population of this country, too might have benefited in the same manner. If the law of the land so choose to put Jagan behind bars till the cases are cleared, then why can’t the same can be applied in case of Robert Vadra?
The CVC should take notice of the revelations and investigate the allegations. Pending CVC action, even the Supreme Court should take notice of the allegations and order the CBI to institute a SIT to carry out investigation directly answerable to it. Otherwise, people are likely to loose faith in the Judiciary also. (NSS)