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| Jethmalani predicts BJP's countrywide defeat | | When friend turns foe | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 4: The BJP will face the same electoral drubbing across the country that it had in Delhi and Bihar in 2015, former Union minister and legal luminary Ram Jethmalani said the other day while launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "not fulfilling" his key poll promise of bringing back black money stashed abroad.
Alleging that Modi has no intention of bringing back the illegal wealth from foreign countries, he vowed to fight with all his "might" to pursue the matter. "Modi fooled me. He had no intention to bring back black money. See what happened to BJP and Modi in Bihar. This will happen to them all over the country," the veteran lawyer told reporters.
Jethmalani also wondered why the NDA government has not "shown" any interest in getting details of people having black money in foreign banks when the German government had offered to share the information it had acquired. "Modi misguided even me. He had told me that Rs 90 lakh crore had been stolen from poor people of India and was kept in foreign banks. He said in his election rallies in 2013-2014 that he will give each citizen Rs 15 lakh after bringing back the amount. I believed in him because I have been fighting against black money at the Supreme Court since 2009," said Jethmalani.
Jethmalani claimed that the German government had procured details of 1400 bank accounts through an employee of Liechtenstein bank and that Swiss Bankers Association had announced that most of these account holders were Indians. "All governments approached Germany but no one (from India) went there except me. I was told by the German government that Indian government had not sought any information about the account holders," he said.
He also lambasted BJP national president Amit shah for his comment that Narendra Modi's election-time promise that each Indian citizen will get Rs 15 lakh after he brought to India black money stashed in foreign banks was a mere "jumla. "BJP president Amit Shah even said that the talk of bringing back black money during election was gimmick," he said.
Jethmalani said following a Supreme Court order in 2011, he received 17 letters relating to correspondence between Indian and German government about the issue but names of the letter writers and recipients were smeared with indelible ink. "I found out that the correspondence was not with German government but with a small tax office concerned with double taxation avoidance treaty...They had corresponded with that office and not with the German government. Even that correspondence was stopped in 2009," he said. "I said to them that we will go to the court and they will be sent to the jail for the forgery of removing names from the list. The letters were written when P Chidambaram was Finance Minister. But Arun Jaitley suppressed that correspondence. In 2014, I got those letters," claimed Jethmalani.
Jethmalani's prediction that BJP will suffer defeat like in Delhi and Bihar may come true. After all, the year 2015 was a year of defeat for the BJP. The BJP lost almost all the by-elections it fought, including in the BJP-ruled states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. It also lost panchayat elections in UP. It couldn't win even in the Prime Minister's Varanasi constituency. Besides, it lost elections to the civic bodies in Maharashtra, MP, Chhattisgarh, HP and so on.
The fact of the matter is that the Modi government has failed to deliver on any front. Its economic policies have added to the woes of middle class, lower middle class and the poor across the country. Its socio-political policy has pitted one section against the other. Its secularism has annoyed the majority community and its foreign policy has simply boomeranged and boomeranged to the extent that even a country like Pakistan is threatening India. Besides, its Kashmir policy has created a dangerous situation in the Valley and the nation has come to believe that if the Modi Government continued to deal with Kashmir like he has dealt with so far, the Valley would go out of India and the results would be disastrous for the nation. Not only this, the people across the nation have come to believe that there is no different between Modi Government has been doing and what the Congress-led UPA Government did between 2004 and 2014. All this has worked against the BJP and what Jethmalani has said has to be viewed in this context.
Remember, the BJP in J&K is also afraid of facing the electorate. That's the reason the BJP doesn't want panchayat and local bodies' elections in the state. |
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