The meeting lasted for about half an hour.
Chidambaram has been imprisoned since September 5 for his involvement in INX media scam.
Now, let us come to the issue.
Why on earth Manmohan and Sonia visited Tihar Jail to meet Chidambaram when they did not even once meet R Raja and Kanimozhi, when they were imprisoned in 2G scam?
Are they fearful of Chidambaram revealing any secret pertaining to any wrongdoing? In fact, BJP leader and Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on September 23 had spoken on the same lines.
The world knows, Chidambaram is the guard of Gandhi family's box of secrets. All their unlawful activities including, money laundering and political witch-hunting, have been done through him.
The closeness of Chidambaram to Gandhi family during UPA I and II regimes has been brought out very well in a book, The Accidental Prime Minister, written by veteran journalist Sanjay Baru in 2014.
The book mentions Manmohan's keenness to hold the finance portfolio along with the prime minister's, but Sonia gave it to Chidambaram as a reward for remaining loyal to her from 2004 to 2014. From 2004 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2014, he was the finance minister under both UPA regimes. Also, he was the home minister from 2008 to 2012.
During his tenure as the home minister, he indulged himself into political witch-hunting of Gujarat Chief Minister and Home Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah at the behest of Sonia. Ever since, Shah and Sonia do not see eye to eye. In fact, she wanted to kill Shah and Modi in the jail, if Baba Ramadev has to be believed.
The book also makes a sad commentary of Manmohan's UPA-1 tenure when he presided over a corrupt cabinet. He could not stop telecom, coal, chopper, Tatra truck and many other scams and was accused of helping a corporate house win a coal block illegally.
Recently, Manmohan's name also was linked to the administrative and financial irregularities of Nalanda University during his prime ministerial tenure. His daughters were appointed to the university, but stayed in US while drawing salary.
Such being the besmirched legacy of Manmohan, the former prime minister made an unconvincing statement regarding INX Media scam after meeting Chidambaram in the jail. He said the FIPB clearance was collective decision and if the minister is liable for approving a recommendation, then the whole system of government will collapse.
The import of this statement is absolutely clear - The Congress is entirely blaming bureaucrats for the corruption, but without mincing words accepting the economic offence committed by Chidambaram and his staff.
This is in contrast to the 2G scam when Sonia and Manmohan did not blame any of the bureaucrats then for any corruption in this regard.
Why are these leaders blaming the bureaucrats now? Why are they defending Chidambaram who has been accused for his blatantly illegal abuse of political power?
Could it be that Chidambaram might open his mouth which might put the Gandhi family and other big Congress leaders in the dock?
Isn't Chidambaram capable of threatening Sonia, especially when we all know the 2011 bugging incident in Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's office in the North Block, when he was the Home Minister?
These are the questions the national channels should be raising, but they are busy with attacking Narendra Modi on economic slowdown, lynching, cow slaughter, Kashmir issue, Balakot and various other issues.
In contrast, there is hardly any debate on Chidamabram-Sonia meeting in Tihar Jail. This could be because of Queen Bee's money playing its part in these media houses. It is, therefore, very important for all right-thinking people to raise this issue from all platforms - online or offline
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