"Indian polity's home truth out is in the open. Senior BJP leader & former party president Nitin Gadkari has made his party's policy clear. On a tv debate programme, Nitin Gadkari is seen justifying the presence of criminal politicians in a party. He says that if tickets are given only to honest people, the party will not win a single seat."
"The deal struck between the Adani group and the Modi government for supply of power to the state smacks of blatant favouritism and corruption. While the people of Gujarat are being duped, the Adani group is reaping massive profits.
"Narendra Modi's government today took advantage of the opposition's absence in the state assembly to pass without fracas a diluted Gujarat Lokayukta Commission Bill 2013, which includes no change sought by the state's governor, Kamla Beniwal. Ms Beniwal had last month returned the bill, which proposes to give all powers to appoint the state Lokayukta or ombudsman to a committee headed by the Chief Minister, virtually eliminating the governor as well as the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court from the process..."
" Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday said the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat Government stands ‘exposed’ in its corruption linkages, after it compiled a proposal to amend the state’s Lokayukta Commission Bill so as to leave the Lokayukta powerless, extracting all prosecution powers from the position. “Obviously, he does not want the various scams of Gujarat to be independently investigated. In Gujarat, he has given two lakh acres of land to one company, Adani, for Re. 1 to Rs.
"The Supreme Court’s order of Wednesday, disallowing convicted Members of Legislative Assemblies and Parliament to continue in office, could prove disquieting to as many as 57 Gujarat legislators, including Cabinet Minister Babubhai Bokhiria. Mr. Bokhiria was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the Rs. 54-crore illegal limestone mining case on June 15, the first sitting Minister ever to be convicted in Gujarat.
"...But in the heat and dust of accusatory politics and competitive journalism, there is one shady deal involving a precious natural resource worth billions of dollars that has escaped public scrutiny. The deal involves the Narendra Modi government and a dubious company incorporated in the Caribbean island of Barbados. In perhaps what would qualify as one of the most scandalous contracts ever signed, the Modi regime gave away a 10 percent participating stake in an expansive gas field it had won in a bidding process to a company named GeoGlobal Resources that existed only on paper.
"BJP MP Ram Jethmalani on Wednesday rejected the party's clean chit to Nitin Gadkari over the alleged dodgy business practices of a group of companies linked to him, reinforcing doubts that the party chief, already diminished, may not be able to limp into a second term after his current tenure ends in December. "It is a betrayal of the people," Jethmalani said rejecting the testimonial of innocence that Gadkari secured from the party on the basis of the findings of S Gurumurthy, a chartered accountant-turned-Hindutva ideologue..."
"A high profile institute-cum-think tank in the heart of New Delhi's diplomatic area in Chanakyapuri.., a clutch of former intelligence officials running the place, and a group of well-known RSS swayamsewaks — they are the silent force behind the recent anti-corruption movements in the country, especially the one led by Baba Ramdev. In fact, it was at the Vivekananda International Foundation last year that a decision was taken to form an anti-corruption front under Baba Ramdev — this was just days before Anna Hazare sat on his first fast.
"Earlier this year, Gujarat Congress had submitted to the Governor Dr Kamla and the president a detailed list of '17 scams' that had allegedly taken place under the Modi government. It demanded probe by an independent agency. Last week, when it was getting apparent that a Lok Ayukta for the state was close, the state government set up an enquiry commission to be headed by retired Justice MB Shah. The following is the list of alleged scams submitted by the Congress to the Gujarat governor and the president..."
"For years, a scam has been going on in connivance with some local families and some senior Kandla Port Trust and Union Shipping Ministry officials. Headlines Today has exposed the mammoth land scam in which 16,000 acres of prime land were leased out for a mere pittance and the loss to the Indian exchequer has been evaluated at a whopping Rs.200,000 crore by the port's chief vigilance officer.
