CHIDAMBARAM IN DISARRAY. WILL THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM BE FINALLY PROVED ?

Scandals, cases of scams, disproportionate assets and corruption are not new in politics. During the era of the former prime minister Indira Gandhi the Tulmohan Ram and Naagarwala scandals including the unearthing of Rs. 3 crores from the then minister of telecommunication Sukhram during the UPA rule rocked parliament followed by good number of scams like the coal and common wealth corruption scandals and alleged disproportionate asset cases against leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mayavati and the then union steel minister Virbhadra Singh etc have led us to the conclusion that scams in politics are like CHOLI DAMAN KA SAATH with politicians of the country.

Its a worldwide phenomena as well. While political parties in the opposition trade charges of political vindictiveness against the government in power at the centre to witch hunt their political foes misusing the investigative agencies, the same ruling party when dethroned from power repeat the same charge of political vendetta against the opposition when it comes to power.

This trend is going on for the last 70 years since we achieved independence but seldom are the political defaulters usually punished except in negligible cases. How, in some of most sensitive cases the highly responsible agencies like CBI and ED had proved to incompetent can be easily gauged from the accquital of the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in the most hyped Bofors case which changed governments and the recent controvertial Maxis Aircel and 2G spectrum case in which the the prime accused like former telecom minister G Raja, DMK leader Karunanidhi’s daughter n MP Kanimojhi and Daya nidhi Maaran etc got scot free after so much of hullaballoo and the then opposition exlpoiting such issues to the hilt to come to power at the centre.

Such instances of the acquittals of the prime accused only leads one to the conclusion of witch hunt by the government in power. When the National Herald case against Sonia , Rahul Gandhi and veteran leader and Congress treasurer Moti Lal Vohra were instituted during the curent political dispensation followed by the alleged involvement of the former finance minister P Chidambaram the Congress party created uproar in the both houses of parliament accusing the BJP led NDA government of political witch hunt to intentionally demoralise and harrass its arch political opponents.

The registration of the CBI case against P. Chidambaran just a day befor the tabling of the no confidence motion in the Lok Sabha has been labelled by the Congress party and UPA as taking political revenge from its arch political detractors.

The CBI case has been registered against the former union finance minister P. Chidambran and his son for illegally favouring the Maxis Aircell company of Mauritius by way of granting it official permission to invest Rs 3500 crores in contravention of the rules and regulations of Foreign Invention Promotion Board as the finance minister is only entitled to give the clearence upto the limit of Rs. 600 crores.

Any over limit than 600 crores requires the due approval of the cabinet committee on economic affairs which was not sought by Chidambaran while arbitrarily crossing his discreationery limit of approval. Not only this but after the approval granted by the minister finance Chidambaram’s son who was allegedly acting as a conduit to the Aircell Maxis Company, received several lakh rupees in his bank account which the investigative agency considers as the bribe given to him at the behest of his father, the then finance minister by the said company.

According to the CBI’s version, while registering the case against P. Chidamram, the latter has deliberately and knowing committed this illegal act or irregularity to help his son in league with the officials of the Foreigh Investment Promotion Board.

The matter is currently in the court of law and as such the fate of Chidamram lies in the court’s future judgement. But one thing is for sure that the way the prime investigation agency has been under question for the acquittal of several scamsters in the past its’ usually considered that involvement of white caller politicians is seldom proved?

Let’s see whether the agency is able to prove its worth by winning this case hands down and finally proving that its not a political witch hunt but a genuine and transparent case of misuse of power and position to favour a company with arbitrary and unfair means. What’s your take friends?