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Subject: A small Article by Ram Jethmalani
These are exciting times. The Skeletons keep tumbling out-- |
Ram Jethmalani minces no words.
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Ram Jethmalani's Article;
It is about 10 o'clock in the morning of 16 May 2014, as I write this
piece after my badminton game. Before starting I turned on the
television to hear the election trends. 16 May 2014 will go down as a
momentous Victory Day in India's history. The day the nation broke its
shackles and attained deliverance from the corrupt, communal and
colonial UPA government headed by the Italian branch of the
Nehru-Gandhi family, which has bled our country by several thousands
of crores during the last decade. This has been the mother of all
victories, stunning the Congress into a deathly silence. With their
miserable tally of 44 seats, they cannot even aspire to lead the
Opposition.
The UPA ensured the unity of their coalition through their
adharma of corruption. By allocating spheres of corruption to each
constituent, they ensured their continuity, confident also that
religious division and vote banks that they engineered would blot out
their plunder at the next election. They couldn't have been more
misguided. The entire nation rejoices and salutes India's new Prime
Minister, Narendra Modi, who after a tireless and gruelling campaign
of almost two years has received an unprecedented, historic mandate
from the people of India to lead our country.
I must also congratulate every columnist of The Sunday
Guardian for giving a near accurate assessment of the election result.
The Sunday Guardian, right from the start has consistently supported
Narendra Modi for Prime Ministership. And it has happened just as we
forecast and hoped, and Narendra Modi will be Prime Minister of the
country, despite the hatred, calumny and lies that was disseminated
about him in the most diabolical and calculated manner. But he fought
them all and won. Additionally, I congratulate M.J. Akbar, Editorial
Director of The Sunday Guardian for joining the BJP, and as a
spokesman now, leading the path for other secular enlightened Muslims
of India.
As for me personally, I was both overjoyed and proud.
Overjoyed, because the person whom I had been fighting for as most
qualified and deserving for Prime Ministership of India, was miles
ahead of his non-existent competitors. And proud, because my
prediction made many months ago, based on my rudimentary knowledge of
astrology corroborated by intuition, that Narendra Modi would be a
glorious Prime Minister proved to be accurate.
Let me, however, assure my readers that I have no plans
to change my profession of law for one of a soothsayer. Nor is it my
intention to seek some grateful reward from Narendra Modi. But today,
I feel totally free to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, unrestrained by any adverse impact it might have on the
electoral prospects of the BJP or any of its candidates, including
Arun Jaitley. Everyone including Narendra Modi knows that I
ceaselessly campaigned for him and the BJP, despite my expulsion from
the party, chiefly manipulated by the notorious members of the 160
Club. My assistance during the election campaign was offered without
distinction or discrimination, but about Arun Jaitley, I had written
to Narendra Modi a long time ago, that his defeat was more or less
certain, even without my campaigning for or against him. Apart from
his humiliating electoral defeat, now that the 160 Club has also come
a cropper, his attempts to flood important decision making platforms
of Narendra Modi's government with his associates is not going to do
him or the new government much good, except perhaps inviting his own
quarantine in the party.
I believe it was Narendra Modi alone, and none of the
other distinguished Party leaders, who was responsible for including
the issue of recovery of black money stashed away in foreign banks, in
the BJP election manifesto. Narendra Modi is aware of my five years of
legal battle in the Supreme Court to have a Special Investigation Team
supervised by two ex-judges of the Supreme Court to carry out the task
of recovering our stolen money. The Manmohan Singh government, under
orders of Sonia Gandhi and her son managed to frustrate the Supreme
Court judgement of July 2011 constituting an SIT for this purpose.
This corrupt action was rejected as vexatious by the new three-judge
bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Dattu on 26 March 2014.
But what is most shameful is that even as election results were coming
in on 16 May, Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra moved the
Supreme Court for relief in the shape of stay of the constitution of
the SIT, which P. Chidambaram badly wants. The Hon'ble Judges
summarily rejected the frivolous and dishonest request. What emerges
crystal clear is the desperation that even as their party was being
pulverised at the polls, the infamous looter trio of Sonia, Rahul and
Chidambaram were trying their utmost to stall the Supreme Court
directions.
In this context, I would like to ask the mother and son
one question: the nation should be informed of which foreign country
Rahul was sent to by his mother, even as she was dining out the Prime
Minister, and what the purpose of this unusual visit was.
Incidentally, I have repeatedly stated in public and to the press that
Sonia and her family are the chief beneficiaries of the plunder of US
$1,500 billion, equivalent to Rs 90 lakh crore.
I look forward to informing Narendra Modi, after he
settles down as Prime Minister, about a few significant events that
have taken place regarding disclosure about the black money holders,
during March this year when I visited Germany. The German authorities
required a request with signatures from the political opposition
asking for disclosure of the names. On my return, I informed L.K.
Advani and requested him to initiate action regarding obtaining the
necessary signatures to a three-line letter (also provided to him by
me), addressed to the German authorities requesting disclosure. Well,
Advani did nothing; when reminded, he referred me to another BJP
leader and lastly to my own son.
It would clearly appear that any aspirant for office, whether from the
160 Club or Parliamentary Board who does not act in accordance with
the commitment of repatriating black money must be viewed as
anti-national and anti-party, and would greatly compromise Narendra
Modi and the new government. They would be seen as part of the same
criminal conspiracy which includes Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, some
Cabinet ministers and associates, obstructing the repatriation of our
stolen wealth. A Cabinet of impeccable integrity is the only way
Narendra Modi must start with.
Narendra Modi is completely aware of the test through
fire that awaits him. He has so many priorities to attend to —
reducing prices, creating jobs, revving up the economy, development,
finding ways of uprooting the deep tendrils of corruption. But one of
his first acts after becoming Prime Minister must be to specifically
and categorically assure the minorities that he is not their enemy and
they have nothing to fear from him. He must take them into confidence
and explain to them how the hate campaign against him was
systematically orchestrated and sustained by the enemies of India.
This is important, for he must start peeling off the layers of lies
that have been perpetrated around him in India and abroad, through
hired mercenaries and intellectuals, including Nobel Laureates. These
lies need to be demolished as systematically as they were constructed,
and the best way to start is through such an assurance to all
minorities that they will be protected, and treated as equal citizens
of India in the same manner as the rest, and that their religious
freedom will not be touched. Sab ka saath, sab ka vikaas. In this
respect, Narendra Modi's words must be matched by actions, to prove
his detractors and accusers as complete liars who misled vast sections
of the people of India. The undesirable fringe elements who act
rabidly against Hindu principles of tolerance and in the past have
attacked churches have been responsible for giving the BJP a bad name.
These fringe elements must be controlled and disowned, and a strong
diktat must be issued against invoking religion in national policies,
where all citizens are treated equally, or in making communal hate
speeches. The Inter Faith Committee, which is part of the BJP Election
Manifesto, must be established immediately, and a special vigil should
be kept to ensure that no anti national mischief makers engineer any
communal riots in the country just to malign Narendra Modi.
Another important issue regarding which well intentioned
but misinformed advice is being rendered by several of Narendra Modi's
colleagues is regarding Article 370 of the Constitution of India. The
ramifications of this issue are complex, and I look forward to
discussing them with the Prime Minister, and fully informing him,
particularly in the background of the negotiations that took place by
the Kashmir Committee chaired by me during the Vajpayee regime, which
I continued thereafter.
As for me, I continue to remain in the departure lounge
of God's airport, with no desire for office or political ambition,
except to return at least a part of the debt which I owe to my
country.
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