'MTB Nagraj, Byrati Basavraj, KC Narayana Gowda, S T Somashekar, Mahesh Kumathalli and Anand Singh, all of them-the contesting candidates from the BJP reportedly have amassed a vast amount of wealth between July 2018 and October 2019. According to the affidavits submitted with their nominations: Anand Sing now has assets worth Rs 104.42 crore, which is 33 crore more than what it was just 18 months ago. MTB Nagraj, who is a candidate from the Hoskote constituency, has declared assets worth Rs 1,223 crore; in 2018, his wealth was worth Rs 1,015 crore.
'Before unveiling the electoral bonds scheme – which renders political funding more opaque and allows parties to receive unlimited amounts of money without having to disclose where it came from – the Narendra Modi government ignored the Reserve Bank of India’s recommendation not to go ahead with it, HuffPost India has reported. Four days before Arun Jaitley was to announce the scheme in his Budget speech of 2017, a tax official going through the documents realised that the change would require amendments to the Reserve Bank of India Act, Nithin Sethi reports.
'Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath knew about the case involving real estate giant Ansal Developers and there were "orders from above" to close the case, Uttar Pradesh Minister Swati Singh has purportedly told a state police officer, demanding that she close the case. The audio clip of the conversation, which was widely circulated, had landed the minister in hot water, with the Chief Minister asking the state police chief to submit a report on the matter within 24 hours. Yogi Adityanath had also summoned the minister...'
'A leaked report by the National Statistical Office (NSO), based on a consumption expenditure survey conducted by the organisation between July 2017 and June 2018, has shown a drop in consumer spending for the first time in more than four decades on weak rural demand, Business Standard reported on Friday, 15 November. However, hours after the newspaper report, the government said that the 2017-18 consumer spending survey won't be released due to "data quality issues.” It added that the government will release the next report in two years...'
'Another shocking scoop from Business Standard showed that the Narendra Modi government did not release a report that showed economy in distress. India's consumer spending fell for the first time in four decades according to a survey approved for release in June 2019, but is yet to hit the public domain. This is the second time a similar allegation has been made against the government; another NSO survey on rising unemployment was held back from release by the government until the elections were over...'
'The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government on the purchase of 36 fully loaded Rafale fighter jets from French company Dassault Aviation, rejecting the plea for registration of an FIR by the CBI for alleged commission of cognisable offence in the deal. The apex court dismissed the pleas seeking review of the December 14, 2018 verdict in which it had said that there was no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets...'
'Republic TV and Zee News, among other channels, called the students ‘freeloaders’ for protesting against the steep fee hike... On November 11, Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami hosted a primetime segment on the “chaos and mayhem” created by students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi “for a mere Rs 290 fee hike”. As the channel flashed the hashtag #JNUFreebies, he asked if “those who want to freeload forever” should be allowed to “hold a university and its administration to ransom”.
Submitted by narendramodifacts on Wed, 11/13/2019 - 21:49
To answer this question we first need to define "corruption". Definitions of corruption can be more or less broad. The Merriam-Webster definition is perhaps the broadest: "dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people"[1].
'BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya tweeted a copy of a complaint filed by the party’s West Bengal unit with the election commission against an alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by the TMC. The complaint was with regard to the by-polls in the state scheduled to be held on November 25. The BJP alleged that the officer-in-charge of Thanapara police station, Sumit Kumar Ghosh, has been regularly participating in door-to-door campaigning by TMC MP Mahua Moitra in Nadia district.
'On November 1, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), the investigative arm of India’s customs authorities, filed an affidavit before the Delhi High Court clarifying the status of its investigations into alleged over-invoicing of imports by a number of companies. The imports – which included a range of capital goods and raw materials like coal that were brought into the country by companies operating in core infrastructure sectors, such as power generation and transmission, ports and fertilisers – have been under DRI’s scanner since the last six years.
