Targeting Pawar In Jet Airways Case, Might Give Sleepless Nights To BJP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's crackdown on shell companies has helped investigating agencies to unearth massive scams, but it might give BJP sleepless nights as some distasteful information is pouring out against its top leaders in one of the high-profile cases.

The Enforcement Directorate's investigation into Jet Airways money laundering case has become a vehicle for the opposition and anti-Modi brigade to revisit the 2001 episode when LK Advani, who was Deputy Prime Minister in Atal Behari Vajpayee government, had failed to take action against illegal transactions between underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Naresh Goyal, who is the former chairman of the now grounded Jet Airways.

As per the Home Ministry files, Goyal was receiving large dubious investments originating from Gulf Sheikhs. 

This came to light in 2001, when IB Joint Director Anjan Gosh had sent a secret communique to Sangita Goirala, a joint secretary in the Home Ministry, referring to Goyal's intermittent contacts with underworld dons, Chhota Shakeel and Dawood Ibrahim, to settle financial issues. 

He had raised strong suspicion that parts of Goyal's investments may have accrued through the assistance of these contacts. Even the RAW had issued a note on his money trail.

Despite this sensitive information at the government's disposal, Advani could have at least initiated a probe into this murky transactions, especially after Kandahar hijack drama. In fact, soon after this incident, Goyal was given security clearance for Jet Airways. 

Goyal was allowed to go scotfree because of his high-level political contacts, which emboldened him to refuse giving information about his source of funds, claiming NRI status. 

Using these political links, he was able to enlighten himself about the future plans of the civil aviation ministry under Shahnawaz Hussain, who was very close to him.

Goyal knew in advance government's plan to open UK sector for private airline companies and also given an informal assurance of getting permission to fly Jet Airways to UK, which allowed him to buy seven slots at London's Heathrow Airport in July 2004 and spend millions of US dollars for landing, parking and fueling rights.

This unfairly allowed Jet Airways to stay way ahead of its competitors. 

Goyal also managed to secure security clearances from the civil aviation ministry, despite adverse remarks made by IB. 

Interestingly, the home ministry, gave up its authority to issue security clearance and instead left it to the civil aviation ministry. Of all the records, Jet Airways' is the only case where the home ministry gave up its right to give security clearance.

The issue of the security clearance was raised in the parliament by former civil aviation minister Sharad Yadav. He had sought explanation from government regarding the unconditional security clearance given to Goyal, when his funding trail ran cold in the Isle of Man, a well-known tax haven.

NOT only, the ED investigation has all the potential to embarrass BJP, but has already caused a big damage to NCP and Congress' electoral prospects in Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections, as names of Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel is cropping up in the Jet Airways case. They are accused of giving undue favours to Goyal's airliner, despite knowing Dawood-Goyal financial transactions.

Patel gave Jet Airways the much-coveted permission to fly to the US, making it the country’s first private sector airline to fly on the lucrative sector, but before it could start operations, the airliner was mired in a huge controversy. 

The Maryland-based Jet Airways Inc had accused Jet Airways of trademark infringement and asked various authorities, not to allow Jet Airways to fly to US. Its CEO and president, Nancy M Heckerman, also alleged that the Indian airliner was an Al Qaeda company.

The US, on the behalf of Nancy, sought clarifications from UPA government, but within months in May 2003, the Indian government gave a clean chit to Jet Airways. 

The government's stand remained consistent even after similar clarifications were sought by Singapore and UK governments in 2006 after a Jet Airways employee in London, Amin Asmin Tariq, was arrested for alleged links to the foiled attempt to blow up transatlantic flights with liquid bombs. 

This is the same Patel, who had destroyed Air India. He first pushed the public air carrier into grave financial problem by loading it with Rs 50,000 crore debt by deciding to inflate its order for new aircraft from 28 to 68 sans a revenue plan and a road-map for aircraft deployment. 

Secondly he merged Air India with Indian Airlines as the panacea to tackle losses of both these airline companies. Patel claimed the merger would help cost savings, but on the contrary it has been the biggest disaster in aviation history as the entity could not end problems relating to varying cultures and employee costs.

Thirdly, Patel withdrew Air India operations from lucrative routes, giving a chance for private airliners like Jet Airways, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways, Air Asia, Singapore Airlines and several others to fill the gap. 

The airliner's letters to its stations in Kozhikode, Doha and Bahrain, asking them to withdraw operations on the route is proof enough to implicate Patel, without his approval this decision would not have been taken.

The alleged nexus between politicians and Goyal came to light during investigations carried out by ED into Jet Airways alleged forex violation during the signing of over Rs 9,000 crore deal with its strategic partner Etihad Airways in 2014 for a loyalty programme business.

On October 16, the agency had questioned his wife Anita Goyal as part of its ongoing probe in the case.

Rs 9,000 crore fund was received by Jet Airways and allegedly diverted to companies abroad, thus causing huge foreign exchange loss to the exchequer. 

As per the allegations, the money was diverted through inflated payments for the lease of airplanes and their maintenance services over 10 years.

Goyal is accused of diverting a major amount of loans abroad via 19 of his companies and an Ireland-based airplane leasing firm, which is alleged to be a shell company.

This shell company has alleged to have helped in diverting the inflated payments that were double or three times the market price. 

Goyal also is accused of siphoning off huge amounts in foreign jurisdictions, through dubious and fictitious transactions, by structuring various tax-evading schemes involving its domestic companies and the companies in foreign tax jurisdiction.

The politics behind Abhijit Banerjee getting Noble Prize

On October 15, the Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee jointly won the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard's Michael Kremer.

After winning the award, Banerjee, in a press conference in New York, said that Indian economy is "doing very badly" even as the government is increasingly recognising that there is a problem.

We must all be proud because of an India-born economist winning the award, but his remarks needs to be thoroughly diagnosed.

There are two major indicators that show if an economy is doing well or not. Those are - forex and gold reserves of a country.

As on October 4, India’s foreign exchange reserves had hit a record high of $437.833 billion, as per the data released by Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The foreign currency assets (FCA), which form a key component of reserves, had risen by $3.996 billion to $405.611 billion.

On the gold reserves front, India had entered the league of world's top-10 gold holding central banks, which was confirmed by a data released by World Gold Council on June 4. The RBI held 612.6 tonnes of the metal as part of its foreign exchange reserves and dislodged the Netherlands from the 10th spot.

No other country can understand the value of gold reserves as it does. The Chandra Shekhar government had pledged 46.91 tonnes of gold with the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan to raise $400 million to avoid default on overseas payment obligations.

Yashwant Sinha, who is the most vocal critique of Narendra Modi government's economic policies, was the finance minister then. Phew!

The increase in forex and gold reserves, clearly indicates the robustness of the Indian economy.

Apart from these two parameters, there are few other factors which also indicate the soundness of Indian economy.

Factor 1: For the first time in UN history, India is among 34 UN member states which has paid its regular budget dues in full and on time to the world organisation, when rich-countries like US, Saudi Arabia and Oman, among 64 members states have not paid theirs.

The non-payment by these countries has resulted in the UN facing a severe liquidity crisis. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that the world organization will not have enough cash by November to cover payrolls.

In this grave scenario, India has paid 23.25 million dollars in regular budget assessments by January 31, 2019, the 30-day due period specified as per UN's Financial Regulation rules.

Factor 2: Never before in its history, India had paid oil import bills of Iran. In the previous round of US sanctions, India had settled 45 per cent of oil payments in rupees and the remainder in euros After the fresh US sanction, India had signed a deal with Iran to make all payments in rupees to fix its trade balance with Tehran.

Factor 3: The Indian government also took a very bold decision to cut corporate tax from 30 per cent to 22 per cent, which would result in a revenue loss of Rs 1.45 lakh crore to the Indian exchequer.

Factor 4: The decision to increase five per cent, from 12 to 17 per cent, Dearness Allowance of central government employees, also would cause a revenue loss of Rs 15,909.35 crore.

Factor 5: Yet another scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, is going to cost the Indian treasury Rs 75,000 crore. The scheme would benefit 12 crore farmers across India.

As per reports on April 23, the government has already transferred Rs 10,500 crore to farmers' accounts, comprising first and second installments.

Also the Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, just before the elections, had also allocated Rs 60,000 crore for NREGS scheme in 2019-20.

For fiscal year 2018-19, NREGS was allocated Rs 55,000 crore.

These decisions taken by the Modi government clearly shows it has enough money in the exchequer to meet these promises.

Also, for the first time in 20 years, India has raced past China on FDI front in 2018. This has changed the dynamics of attractive Asian market.

India had attracted 253 inbound deals amounting to $39.515 billion compared to China's $33.02 billion in 397 inbound deals in 2018, as per a data from Dealogic, a global financial markets platform.

Despite these positive indicators, on what basis the left brigade and the Lutyens media are raising a noise over slowdown?

They are arguing on the basis of fluctuating rupee value, consumer sentiments and quarter-on-quarter GDP number.

In reality, these economic parameters do not interest Indian voters, except matters of corruption and inflation, which were non-issues in last general election.

India's inflation, as per the Economic Survey released on July 4, was at low levels in past five years of NDA rule, compared to a decade's UPA rule.

During NDA rule, from 1999 to 2004, the average rate of inflation was 4.1 per cent while it was 5.l8 per cent between 2004 and 2009 during UPA-I.

During UPA-II rule, from 2009 to 2014, the average rate of inflation was 10.4 per cent, while from 2014 to till September 2018, during NDA rule, the average inflation rate was 4.7 per cent.

So, if inflation is under check, is there any urge in the people to spend at all? This is a very pertinent question raised by the Lutyens media and the left brigade, which had resorted to fear-mongering on it just before the start of Indian festival season.

Consider this: In the first six days of the festive sale from September 29-October 4, e-retailers Amazon and Flipkart in India achieved a record nearly Rs 19,000 crore of Gross Merchandise Value (GMV).

Given the momentum seen in the first edition of the festive sale, the entire month of October is expected to generate up to Rs 39,000 crore in online sales, almost shared by Amazon and Flipkart. This was reported by Bengaluru-based research firm RedSeer Consultancy.

This is just one small example of positive consumer sentiment prevaling in the organised sector, but what about the unorganized sector? Those numbers are not accounted as GDP numbers? For sure, the liquidity is much higher than the organised sector.

Amidst this positive scenario, it is astonishing to hear Abhijit Banerjee saying that the Indian economy is doing badly. He also had expressed his disappointment over Modi government for rolling back taxes on the rich and said these steps wouldn't save the economy from the current downturn. "Taxing the rich is the first step towards a stable economy where people are not desperate," he had said.

If Congress would have won the election and Nyay scheme implemented, it would have pushed India's economy to Chandra Shekhar and Manmohan Singh's eras.

WHO CREATES these anti-India brands like Amartya Sen, Raghuram Rajan and Abhijit Banerjee? And for what purpose?

Consider this: Amartya Sen was awarded Nobel Prize on the recommendation of Rothschild family, which has a reputation of enriching itself on growing misery around the world at slightest of opportunities.

It also has a history of manipulating stock markets, funding world wars, engineering largescale decisions in their favor, exercising significant control over the banking system, and owning large media outlets to influence public opinion in their favor.

Yet another India-born economist Raghuram Rajan belongs to an elite group of economist czars called the Group of Thirty, which is sponsored Rockefeller Foundation.

The Group of Thirty strategises use of debt crisis to smash sovereignty of each country.

Their perspective is to create a world council with executive powers to dictate and supervise financial policies of each sovereign nation to allow free reign for nation-less capital.

This entity would be made up of the IMF and the Central banks, act independently from national governments, and be coordinated by the Bank for International Settlements, based in Basel, Switzerland.

This group, it is quite evident, has scant respect for sovereignty of nations and their economic growth, and so does Raghuram Rajan. His policies as RBI Governor had dealt a major blow to India’s growth story.

During his tenure, loans had become costlier due to hike in interest rate. MSMEs dried up under his watch due to the Prompt Corrective Action, which put a ban on fresh lendings to them. On the contrary, public sector banks gave loans based on a phone calls from crony leaders. In fact, the public sector banks had the worst phase under his watch.

The ban on fresh lendings not only affected MSMEs, but also big industries because very few businesses in the country enjoy access to alternative sources of capital.

Some of his public speeches were shocking to the core. He once advocated moving of Indian workforce from agriculture to industry and services. If implemented, it has the potential of damaging the Indian economy and increasing unemployment. Instead, a boost in agriculture means more employment for low skilled labor and unskilled labor in the country.

So much from Raghuram Rajan, what about Amartya Sen? He was responsible for many devastating economic policies, including the ill-conceived NREG, which suffered from corruption and inefficiencies. The scheme, which was launched during UPA rule, hardly gave 43 days of employment per year.

With Rs 2 lakh crore spent on the scheme, only 2.7 million jobs were created during 2005-10 under UPA.

Less said the better about Abhijit Banerjee. He was the brain behind Congress' Nyay scheme, which was believed to be a huge burden of Indian economy if implemented.

The scheme, which promised to provide Rs 72,000 annually to about five crore of poorest Indian families, is based on dole-out economics, which discourages masses to develop self-sufficiency. This model perpetuates poverty and ensures a solid vote-bank for the Congress.

This also works in favour of the benefactors of anti-national international foundations, which create these soundbite masters to push their agendas.

Or simply, are they paying their dues owed to their creators? Looks so ...

Rajdeep Sardesai - A Stockholm Syndrome Victim?

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker, his pregnant wife, and their eight-year-old son were on October 9 found murdered in West Bengal's Murshidabad district.

The bodies of Bondhu Gopal Pal, a 35-year-old primary school teacher, his wife Beauty, and son were found lying in a pool of blood inside their residence in Jiaganj area of the district.

This gruesome killings should bleed anybody's heart and put humanity to shame, but not a word has been spoken by the liberals and not one letter written by 59-brigade to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

This is nothing but nauseating selective journalism at best.

Consider this tweet by the Lutyens media ringmaster Rajdeep Sardesai. He writes: "The horrific Murshidabad triple murder is not linked to any politics or communal angle, West Bengal Police tell India Today. Yet, on social media, manner in which it has been played out suggests otherwise; even senior leaders putting out unverified details, gruesome videos only to incite."

In this tweet, Rajdeep has already given his verdict even before the matter could even reach the courts, by delinking the triple murder with politics and communalism.

He may argue that it is not he who is saying this, but the West Bengal police. So, in the same breath he could have believed Gujarat police, but he never did, despite the courts giving clean chit to them.

Rajdeep also goes on to blame senior leaders for posting unverified details and gruesome videos to incite people.

This gem can only come from the mouth of a person, whose entire career has been loaded with instances of doublespeak.

Consider his earlier tweets on Ishrat Jahan and Gauri Lankesh cases.

On December 5, 2017, Rajdeep writes: "Breaking news: Gauri Lankesh, journalist and a critic of Hindutva politics, has been shot dead in Bengaluru. Very disturbing."

On September 8, 2009, he writes: "Ishrat Jahan was killed in a fake encounter. Communalism of police force and a flawed system of awards has created this situation."

These are the tweets, which were posted, even before police could verify the incidents. In stark contrast to Murshidabad case, Rajdeep, without even waiting for police version, he linked Gauri's murder to Hindutva politics.

In fact, the truth is - The special investigating team, a wing of Karnataka police, is yet to establish evidence that the killers belong to any Hindutva organisation.

In Ishrat Jahan case, Rajdeep without any concrete evidence, calls the encounter fake and declares Gujarat police as communal.

Another unforgettable unverified breaking news he aired on CNN-IBN was the unauthorized Padarwada graveyard digging by Teesta Setalvad, which was exposed by a senior journalist of Headlines Today, Rahul Singh.

He had claimed that he was present at the time of opening of the graves and he was unaware that the graves were legal.

He also claimed that Teesta had brushed aside his ethical concerns and betrayed his trust by passing on the story to Rajdeep, who apparently was given all the information about the case, negating the investigative work being done by Rahul.

There are many such double stands of this Lutyens ringmaster over the years, which the world is aware of. But, one must dig into his past and try to understand why he hates Hindus and Hindutva and loves fundamental Islamist and terrorists.

Could he be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?

Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response wherein a captive begins to identify closely with his or her captors, as well as with their agenda and demands.

The name of the syndrome was derived from a botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden.

In August 1973 four employees of Sveriges Kreditbank were held hostage in the bank’s vault for six days by their captor Jan-Erik Olsson.

During the standoff, a seemingly incongruous bond developed between captive and captor.

Under this situation, the hostages are in a state of denial that the captor putting them in that situation, think he would let them live.

They also experience a type of infantilisation. They seek permission from the captor to speak, eat and use toilet like a child does.

The primitive acts of giving food and allowing hostages to use toilet makes hostages think of the captor as an emergency God.

In fact one of the hostages,  Sven Safstrom, in a New Yorker interview said he felt gratitude when Olsson told him he was planning to shoot him, to show the police understood he meant business, but added he would make sure he didn't kill him and would let him get drunk first.

"When he treated us well, we could think of him as an emergency God," he had said.

Yet another claustrophobic hostage Elisabeth Oldgren said she thought that it was a very kind of Olsson to allow her to leave the

On one occasion a claustrophobic Elisabeth Oldgren was allowed to leave the bank's vault, but only with a rope fixed around her neck.

She said she thought it was "very kind" of Olsson to allow her to move around the floor of the bank, at that point of time.

So, Stockholm Syndrome is typically applied to explain the ambivalent feelings of the captives. Such feelings of Rajdeep can be deduced from an incident mentioned in his book - The Election That Changed India.

EVERYONE should know about 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, in which as many as 317 people died and 1,400 suffered injuries.

The attacks were reported to be coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim, leader of the Mumbai-based international organized crime syndicate, D-Company.

Ibrahim was believed to have ordered and helped organize the bombings through his subordinates Tiger Memon and Yakub Memon.

Soon after, Rajdeep wrote an article praising Dawood Ibrahim. In the last paragraph, he tries to make an absurd comparison of Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackrey's patriotism with Dawood Ibrahim.

He wrote: Indeed, the loyalty test is so patently superficial that it is bound to be exposed sooner or later.  For example,  Mr. Thackeray has always seen support for the Indian Cricket Team when it is playing Pakistan to be a mark of a true patriot.  He might be intrigued to learn that during the one-day internationals in Sharjah, one man who speaks fluent Marathi has been spotted waving the tricolour and vociferously cheering the Indian Team.  His name is Dawood Ibrahim."

This paragraph implies that Rajdeep is defending those who support Pakistan and burn crackers when India loses a match on grounds of Dawood supporting India in one-dayers in Sharjah.

In the same article he wrote: "All this is not to deny the burgeoning growth worldwide of Islamic fundamentalism and its terrorist ways or minimize its capacity for mischief in a communally polarized India.  However, it would be counter-productive, at least in the present circumstances, to project what is primarily a social problem and crisis of governance as a religious war.  This is precisely what some sections of opinion, Hinduvta or otherwise, are attempting to do."

This simply was a desperate attempt by libtards like Rajdeep to rationalize Islamic terrorism. When they failed to rationalize this portrayal, they started blaming the Mumbai blasts on post-Godhra violence. Before this, they blamed it on Babri demolition and before that poverty and unemployment.

Isn't this a classic example of Stockholm syndrome? If the answer is in the positive, then logically, a pertinent question arises - Which is that incident in Rajdeep's childhood, that can justify his Stockholm Syndrome suffering?

Could it be a couple of incidents mentioned in his book: 2014 - The Election That Changed India?

While promoting the book, Rajdeep narrated how his vehicle was stopped by a mob in Gujarat while coming back after interviewing the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

He said people in the mob who were brandishing swords wanted to check if men in the vehicle were circumcised in order to unveil religious identity.

During certain interviews, Rajdeep laid emphasis on his circumcision and pointed out that his parents were rational in doing so.

Isn't this a big lie?

There is nothing rational about it. It is a known fact that remaining uncircumcised is a crime when it comes to the followers of Islam.

Actually, the real reason for Rajdeep's so-called rational parents circumcising him finds reference in the same book.

He writes (Translated from Hindi): My grandfather PM Pant, for more than three decades, was a most respected and decorated police officer. He also rendered his services as Gujarat police chief in 1970. He was a strong and disciplined officer and he stood witness to 1969 Ahmedabad communal riots. My grandfather died in 1999, but my grandmother is still alive and lives in Bohra Muslim Bahul Apartment Block ....

So, there should not be any doubt that Rajdeep's grandfather very well knew who were the perpetrators of communal violence in Gujarat, and hence, his parents circumcised him so that in any circumstances he is asked to remove his pants for Muslim identifaction, he could save himself from getting killed.

Here, Rajdeep forgets that circumcision is not related to hygiene, but to Islamic dogma. If Islamists are so given to hygiene, their burqa-clad women should not have been subjected to profuse perspiration in hot conditions. And also, should not get married to their first cousins, which results in deaths in early childhood.

Isn't this an explanation that Rajdeep is in a denial mood just as the victims of Stockholm Syndrome - linking his circumcision to hygiene, but not to Islamist dogma?

And also, writing in support of rapists, orthodox and fundamentalist Islamists and terrorists, who forced his parents to circumcision him. Period.

Shastra Pooja: A Means To Success In World Politics

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh performed Shastra pooja, a ritual in which  weapons are worshiped, on a Rafale jet in the French port city of Bordeaux on the festive occasion of Vijayadashami.

Rajnath wrote "Om" and offered flowers and a coconut on the fighter jet in France's Merignac before going on a sortie of the jet.

The ritual invited huge criticism from the Left brigade and Lutyens media, besides the Congress party.

Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has dubbed the pooja derisively as a 'tamasha', insisting that they never resorted to such theatrics when they bought weapons like the Bofors gun.

This statement was nothing, but a deliberate and malicious act of insulting one's religion or religious beliefs, under section 295A of the Indian Penal Code.

In any real secular country, a person, who is under the oath office and insults a religion and acts as a source of misunderstanding between communities, would have been prosecuted.

Much problem lies in the absence of definition of word "secularism" in the Indian constitution. The founding fathers of the constitution did not feel necessary for including the word "secularism" because of the ingrained secular traditions of this great nation, but was included in the 42nd amendment to the Indian constitution in 1976.

So, in the absence of a definition of secularism, some interpret it as a concept which envisions separation of religion and state, which is akin to the Western concept. And, some others envisions treating all religions equal.

If the Indian secularism is equal to that of western secular concept, there should not be three lions and eternal message of Satyamev Jaytev (Truth Always Triumphs) of the Mundkoupanishad on India’s National Emblem.

There should also not be Ashoka Chakra on the Tricolour and Dharmachakra Pravartanay inscribed behind Lok Sabha Speaker's seat, besides original copies of the Constitution having images of Hindu deities like Ram, Laxman, Sita, Lord Krishna and Nataraj.

India has always been a sect-neutral country (Panthnirpeksh).

Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shakht, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism have flourished, but there has never been any discrimination with any of the sects.

To make this sect-neutral country into a religion-neutral nation is a deplorable attempt to destroy its actual consciousness.

SEVERAL left-leaning Twitter users also mocked Rajnath with hashtag Rafale Puja Politics.

Many argued that performing rituals of a specific religion on the induction of a national asset is disrespecting the secular spirit of the nation and showing intolerance and disrespect towards other religions.

From Shah Bano to Salman Rushdie to Taslima Nasreen, the psuedo-secularists always respected the sentiments of minorities even at the risk of making mockery of the word "secular" that they themselves had inserted in the Constitution.

They hardly criticise CN Annadurai, the founder of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, for abusing Madurai Meenakshi asking why the goddess needs a diamond nose stud and Lord Rama asking where did he get his engineering degree to have built Ram Setu bridge.

This brigade hardly criticized former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 2006 communal statement that minorities, particularly Muslims, must have the first claim on resources, which was in gross violation of the spirit of secularism.

They also remained silent when he tried to create a sectarian divide in the armed forces by bringing in the Sachar Committee to make an assessment of socio-economic conditions of Muslims in government, bureaucracy and in army.

Also, they never speak when the so-called secularist rulers use state funds to subsidize the Haj pilgrimage and madrassas.

In contrast, they make hell of a noise and disrespect sentiments of Hindus by criticizing nationalistic party like BJP, which is making all efforts to showcase India's soft power on the world stage.

Like the previous Indian governments, these psuedo-secularists hardly recognize the value of soft power, which helps meet the country's foreign policy goals.

Under Modi, India has been using its soft-power assets to enhance the nation's image abroad very successfully.

Consider these: Late External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj spoke in Sanskrit to more than 600 experts from 60 nations in Bangkok and urged them to propagate the language, as she described it to be modern and universal in nature.

Sushma had argued that proficiency in Sanskrit could go a long way in finding solutions to contemporary problems like global warming, unsustainable consumption, civilization clash, poverty and terrorism.

Modi lobbied the United Nations and won the support of 175 member states at the General Assembly for the resolution setting an international day of yoga. On this day, yoga events are held across continents with nearly 200 countries participating.

The performance of Shastra pooja also is yet another age-old soft-power tools of India to improve its image abroad. It should be celebrated as this ritual has a deep philosophical meaning.

Unlike Abrahamic traditions, Hinduism sees divinity in all of creation and God as both immanent and transcendent.

Since the Hindus see manifestation of the divine in weapons also, they clean, decorate and worship the implements that sustain their lives, on the ninth day of Navaratri.

It perhaps will be very interesting for the world to know how a society, which worships weapons, approaches questions of war, violence and non-violence.

For Hindus, dharmic conduct is the basis upon which all the other goals of life are to be attained. So, they also use weapons as per strict dharmic code of conduct.

Hence, wars those days were fought between soldiers only, which is in stark contrast to the total war approach of the Islamic and Christian invasions, where plunder, destruction of cities and large-scale rape, murder and forced conversion of the general populace, are norms of the day.

The tradition that sees divinity in weapons also prizes non-violence. Arthashastra lays out war as the last option, but lays emphasis on conciliation, gifts, dissension and force as a way to deal with other kingdoms.

The projection of these democratic values on to the global stage certainly should be celebrated when the global order is in dire need of positive exemplars.

Unfortunately, the left brigade and Lutyens media cannot perceive events beyond their hate-Hindu rants and divisive concepts, which hovers around beef ban, RSS, lynching, church attacks, MeToo, Sachar and many more.

They continue to rant about these trash topics, despite people of the country had dumped their anti-India, anti-Hindu campaigns in last general elections.

Modi, Shah Deal Blow To Gandhis' Mysterious Foreign Travels

Though electoral politics is a full-time occupation, all politicians deserve a vacation, but Rahul Gandhi takes at least three vacations and numerous foreign trips in a year.

A month after receiving a massive drubbing in 2014 general elections, Rahul had gone abroad. In 2015, he went on leave for almost two months, flying to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.

In 2016 and 2017, he celebrated his birthday in Turkey and Italy. Next year, he flew with his mother Sonia Gandhi for an 'annual check-up.'

For now, Rahul is on a private trip to Cambodia and the Congress is making all attempts to divert attention from his tour in midst of ensuing Haryana and Maharashtra elections.

Rahul's mother also have made many foreign trips as well. In 2005, she flew to Moscow in a Reliance jet and met Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the capacity of a mere Congress Party President.

These are a few foreign trips of the Gandhis, but much is not known about the actual purpose and reasons of these visits.

There are many instances, where Rahul has been caught lying about the trips. Last year, the Congress had denied any meeting between China ministers and Rahul during his Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, but days later, he admitted of it in a public rally in Odisha.

In another instance, he had tweeted about his US visit along with his mother for her medical checkup, but a few days after, he was spotted in either in UK or Germany.

In yet another instance, Rahul had met the founders of the tainted CA, which has been charged with stealing millions of data from Facebook users.

So, the foreign trips of the Gandhis pinpoint to a deep-rooted conspiracy.

When all other politicians, including late Arun Jaitley, had disclosed their foreign trips, why is it that the Gandhis do not inform the Indian authorities? Why is it that they do not disclose the issues discussed with the Chinese or Russian leaders? What are they trying to hide? Why is it that they visit foreign countries without security cover?

If something happens to them on such visits, the Congress, surely, will blame Narendra Modi government, and hence, it is very important to give them security cover to their entire travel abroad.

In this context, the Centre has reportedly asked the Gandhis to furnish information of their recent tours.

It has also issued fresh guidelines related to the security cover given to the Gandhis, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

The revised guidelines make it mandatory for the Special Protection Group (SPG) personnel to accompany Gandhis during their foreign trips as well.

Previously, SPG personnel accompanied Gandhis till their first location abroad and were subsequently sent back to India by them apparently preferring privacy over security.

The new guidelines also make it compulsory for the Gandhis to submit itinerary of all foreign trips.

The Centre has also reportedly made it clear that non-acceptance of these new guidelines could lead to curtailment on their foreign visits on account of security considerations.

If the new rule is implemented, the Gandhis will have no options, but to either cancel the private trip or seek withdrawal of SPG cover to them.

The choice will be theirs ....

Fallout Of Pak-Reynolds Tieup - A Flurry Of Fake News

The Juvenile Justice Committee of Jammu and Kashmir high court, in its report submitted to the Supreme Court, has given an account of the detainment of 144 minors by the police since August 5.

However, all of them were released on the same day, except two.

The JJC's report was prepared, based on the petition filed by some eminent people including child right activists Enakshi Ganguly and Shanta Sinha.

Their petition was based on reports on news portals and international media.

The JJC, however, said its members have not received any complaint or representation from anyone about detainment of any juvenile.

The JJC has sought a report from the state police on alleged incidents of illegal detention of minors, mentioned in the petition.

The director general of police has termed the detention of 11-year-old Pampore as factually incorrect and said the report has been prepared to malign the police and create a story which may have an element of sensationalism.

About the incident at Soura in Srinagar, the police admitted it to be a disturbed area in which the minors were found involved in violence, but argued that the report carried by Washington Post was not source-based.

Police rubbished Quint report on Baramulla incident by saying it was based on fictional imagination and arguing that it was something strange that the local media could not carry this fake news, but the international print media could.

They also called Scroll report of August 28 as defying commonsense. The report, police said, suggested as if police were a predator on a prowl, alleging that a boy on his way to hospital with tea and food was arrested.

Police also rubbished Washington Post report of August 30 about two boys was wrong reporting as it did not provide specifics about the alleged incidents.

This is one of the many mischievous reports on Jammu and Kashmir published by the left-leaning media after the abrogation of Article 370.

YET another mischievous report is about a possible Pakistan-India nuclear war that would unleash global climate catastrophe.

The report, published by Fox News, claimed that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan would not only result in 50 to 125 million direct fatalities, but could jeopardize the entire planet, causing sharp drops in global temperatures and precipitation that could devastate the world's food supply.

The Wire, which was slammed by Supreme Court for pursuing yellow journalism in Jay Shah case, has advocated adoption of Kham strategy to tackle nationalistic issues like article 370 to defeat BJP.

Kham is an acronym denoting an electoral alliance of the Kshatriya, Harijan, Adivasi and Muslim communities. It was framed by Gujarat Congress leader Madhavsinh Solanki before 1980 election with great success.

This kind of politics is highly divisive in nature.

Thankfully, it has not worked in Gujarat ever since Narendra Modi's arrival in Indian politics. Because, the young voters simply dismay caste politics.

How on earth the bards of 'The Wire' get such ideas? Phew ...

SO, one can notice a flood of anti-India articles published online, which is indicative of a deliberate and aggressive media campaign to stir international intervention in Kashmir on behalf of Pakistan's position.

This is not my personal opinion, but of a retired US Army colonel, who is an IT command-and-control subject matter expert. He is also Arabic and Kurdish trained, besides a veteran of Afghanistan, Iraq and a mission to West Africa.

NK Sood, a former RAW officer, often retweets Sellin, hence he must be taken seriously.

The publishing of pro-Pakistan articles is no coincidence, especially when this muck is emanating after Pakistan hiring a leading US lobbying firm Holland & Knight to help advance its interests in US.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had witnessed the contract signing and had held discussions with former Congressman and representative of the firm Tom Reynolds.

Reynolds is a controversial politician, who was involved in a raging controversy surrounding a pedophile ring and financial scandal involving National Republican Congressional Committee, due to which he decided against running for a sixth term.

At that time, he was the fourth most powerful Republican Congressman in the House of Representatives.

So, a medley of pro-Pakistan brigade - the Trans-border Left media (Washington Post, BBC,New York Times and others), pro-Pakistan media in India (The Wire, The Print, Quint and others), Holland & Knight and Pakistan government - have come together to pressurize New India, but they hardly know the spiritual strength of this great nation, which has always succeeded to thwart such intentions.

These after all are non-rulers. This great nation has never submitted to the alien rulers as well. They came and went. Some of them vanished. But one who stayed back, they submitted to the spiritual prowess of mother India.

These motley non-rulers are not even the dust of rulers yonder ...

Left Media's Indifference Towards Detailing KGB Files

Circa 1998.

The men in uniform worked on test sites only at nights. They did this to avoid satellites to capture clear images.

In fact, these men in green uniform were scientists of DRDO and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Whenever they visited the test sites, they went undercover and wore army fatigues.

They were also provided false names. APJ Abdul Kalam was codenamed Major General Prithvi Raj and then atomic energy chief Rajagopala Chidambaram was called Nataraj.

Also, code words were profusely used for shafts. One shaft was named "White House" or "whisky", while the other was called "Taj Mahal."

This was done to counter spying on communication.

Many officials were kept in the dark, including then Defence Minister George Fernandes. He was not told about a confidential meeting, which was held between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Kalam and Chidambaram. The discussion was on the nuclear weapon tests.

Also, many ministers did not have any idea about the tests, except LK Advani, George Fernandes, Pramod Mahajan, Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha.

After all these clandestine exercises, five nuclear bombs were detonated at Pokhran in Rajasthan.

Amid these events, the United States and CIA failed to identify in advance the Pokhran-II test, despite satellites worth billions were used to spy on Pokhran at all times.

Yet another CIA activity which prominently gets space in the Indian media is about the use of "philanthropic foundations" to deliberately and consciously work against India's interests. One such example is the largescale protests against Koodankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu and the commercialisation of GM food crops in the year 2012.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh then had alleged that the NGOs opposed to the nuclear power project were funded by foreign countries. In fact, Congressmen targeted the CIA for every campaign against them and for nearly every failure to control law and order.

Exposing these anti-India activities in detail by the Indian media is absolutely fine, but the same vigour is not reflected when it comes to detailing nefarious activities of KGB. This is because, most of the mediapersons are left-leaning and sold-out.

But for the KGB files reproduced in "Mitrokin Archive II", the dark side of these left-leaning media would not have been known.

The files showed that ten Indian newspapers and one press agency were on the Soviet payroll during Indira Gandhi's rule. In 1972, the Russian spy agency claimed to have planted more than 3,500 articles in highly influential India newspapers.

At one time, Moscow's access to The Press Trust of India had earned the news wire the title "Press Tass of India" after the Russian news agency TASS.

The files also revealed KGB's conspiracies to foment trouble in Assam and Punjab, millions of roubles pumped into governing party Congress party and successful plots of the Soviet to use honey traps and 'swallows' to seduce Indian diplomats.

The KGB channeled 10.6 million roubles into Indira Gandhi's India, through her party fund-raiser Lalit Narayan Mishra, who accepted suitcases of money for Congress without thinking to inform the prime minister.

Thirty years on, his murder still remains a mystery. The Opposition had charged Indira Gandhi for getting rid of an embarrassingly corrupt minister, who refused to resign and threatened to implicate Gandhi on charges of corruption.

Mishra and 12 others were severely injured after a grenade was lobbed at a function to inaugurate a broad-gauge line between Samastipur and Muzaffarpur in Bihar, on January 3, 1975.

Instead of moving Mishra to 30-minutes journey to Darbhanga, he was taken to Danapur, which is 220 kms away from Samastipur and had inadequate medical facilities.

The train carrying him, also, did not stop at Patna, where a team of surgeons, were waiting. Worse still, the train was stopped at several places, delaying treatment that could have saved him.

Surprisingly, Mishra was carried in an ordinary passenger train when Railway Ministers have personal saloon cars at their disposal. Even more mysterious was that no post-mortem was ever carried out on his body.

All these chain of unexplained events, after the bomb blast, had suggested a conspiracy.

There are many such conspiracies mentioned in the Mitrokin Archive II, including the death surrounding late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in Tashkent.

Keeping all these facts in mind, it is all the more important for citizens, especially mediapersons interested in India's betterment to pursue fair journalism, or else it is better for them to enter the sewage business, which at least does humans some good.

Jai Hind ...

Barkha-Sibal Court Battle May Raise More Muck

Life is funny.

Who could have thought Barkha Dutt would be at loggerheads with a senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, especially after being thick as thieves for a very long time.

She has moved the Patiala House court against him and his wife Promila Sibal, and their company Analog Media Private Limited.

She is demanding damages of over Rs 74 lakh with 18 per cent interest, after the sudden shutting down of Tiranga TV, an English news channel, in July.

Barkha alleged, she was recruited for the news channel and was told that it would continue to function for at least two years. However, within 2 to 3 months, she was asked to terminate her contract with the company.

She said the channel would shut down because return of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power meant the promoters losing all incentive to continue running the channel.

She also alleged that the channel was launched on January 26, instead of November 12 as promised, because the team hired to start the channel was constantly rejigged in an arbitrary and capricious fashion.

This is not the first time Barkha has been surrounded with controversies. The biggest being the Niira Radia case. She had alleged that NDTV had received (Rs 450 crore) as loan, within a couple of weeks of the tape conversation.

A HIGHLY "optimistic" Barkha would have expected an early hearing, but the court postponed the matter to January 9, a far off date. For many, this isn't a surprise as Sibal and Co, are in this profession for donkey's years, having Page 3 connections with, from advocates to the judges themselves, but also had a say in recommending judges in various courts across India while in power.

This high-profile advocate-cum-Congress leader also has the distinction of defending Brajesh Pandey, a Congress leader and brother of NDTV Hindi News anchor and Ramon Magsaysay awardee Ravish Kumar, who allegedly had raped a Dalit girl along with the main accused Nikhil Priyadarshi.

The victim was later forced to marry her rapist - Priyadarshi - who is also son of a Congress leader, to settle the case. The girl is daughter of former Congress minister.

WHY DID BARKHA AND SIBAL JOIN HANDS?

They came together to influence the 2019 general elections by starting a "fake news" channel, which provided her a platform from where she could vent her anger after losing her NDTV job ever since BJP came to power in 2014.

A sundry of fake news were aired, slamming India's demonetisation and EVMs.

Sample these: In its first Facebook broadcast, on January 16, the channel (TNN) claimed 2015 Gurdaspur terror attack was carried out by the Indian government to win Bihar assembly elections.

On January 21, the channel Facebook broadcast live a press conference claiming mass manipulation of EVMs in India.

An investigation by India Today's Anti-Fake News War Room, however, had dismissed these allegations as misleading and raised doubts over TNN World's credibility.

On March 26, April 9 and April 17, Sibal addressed a series of press conferences to allege money laundering by the BJP post demonetisation, based on the channel's video clippings.

On March 26, Congress leaders Sibal, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ahmed Patel, JMM's Hemant Soren, RJD's Manoj Jha and Sharad Yadav, addressed a joint press conference in New Delhi, showing a purported sting operation carried out by TNN.

They alleged that a Gujarat BJP worker had transacted demonitised currencies for a commission of 40 per cent past the deadline for bank exchange.

In yet another press conference, Sibal showed a series of TNN video clippings alleging that BJP's top leadership ran a money-exchange operation with the help of government officials including the RAW.

All these fake news originated from the foreign soil. It was staged managed by a Romanian national Dina Biciin, who was the only director looking after TNN.

Later it came to light that Dina had opened another company named Eva's Tantric Massage Ltd in London after the channel was shut.

Eva's website stated that it offered no health or well-being related services but provided "mutual love with girls from Spain, Brazil, Belarus, Moldova, England, Lithuania and Russia".

PROBABLY, these are the best times the nationalists are witnessing, with the thick thieves - The Lutyens media, Congress and The Left - are a divided lot and fighting among themselves, due to the iron hand unleashed by Modi government for their wrongdoings, which he could do because of the resounding mandate people gave him in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Surely, there are many more skeletons to tumble out of the closet in days to come. The right thinking people, should not do much to rein them in, but to sit back and wait for their stinging  revelations in days to come. Insha Allah ...

The Mahishasuric Thoughts Of Urban Naxals

The old religious practices, old superstitions, old festivals, old social practices and old ways of dress were violently attacked and suppressed in China.

Also, an orgy of old books were burnt and old art objects, smashed.

Homes were invaded and family altars shattered that denoted continued Confucian reverence.

Few temples, mosques and churches were also closed and put to secular use.

Even the Buddhist, Lama and Taoist temples of Beijing, were barred and their statues, altars and other furnishings removed.

No old literature, either Chinese or Western, was on sale. Instead, the bookshops were stacked with Mao Zedong's works.

No traditional operas, no traditional music and no traditional plays, either, were performed.

This was China of Cultural Revolution era. From 1966 to 1976, Mao destroyed China's traditional culture and its people, through brainwashing and global isolation.

However, his ideology has lost its appeal among the Chinese masses a long time ago. The subsequent regimes in China often demonized it as catastrophic and obsolete, but it still has an appeal among Indian Maoists, even though Mao had struggled with his own ideological prognosis and had abandoned his earlier dislike for capitalism by geopolitically embracing the United States in 1972.

The destruction of Dholkal Ganesh by the Indian Maoists in 2017 in Chhattisgarh is one of the numerous episodes of their apathy towards tradition and religion.

The mighty idol, which was discovered in 2012, was pushed off Dholkal mountain's high perch, from a height of 13,000 feet, after the Maoists were frustrated with the frequent movement of tourists and devotees to the place.

Tampering with history and vilifying Hindi deities are other sorts of weapons used by Indian Maoists to serve their political agendas. "Mahishasur: A People's Hero", a book written by Maoist sympathisers, including Nandini Sundar, is a living example of it.

Before throwing some light on their works to denigrate a Hindu goddess, it is very important to introduce Nandini Sundar, who is also a professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics.

She is the wife of The Wire's Founding Editor, Siddharth Varadarajan, who had selected NDTV India's Executive Editor and Maoist sympathiser Ravish Kumar for 'Gauri Lankesh Award.'

Vardarajan, who was editor-in-chief of The Hindu, had to quit in 2011 amidst N Ravi's allegations that the "news desk was given standing instructions not to take any stories on Narendra Modi on page one ..."

In a letter written to The Hindu employees on April 20 2011, Ravi had alleged that the daily was giving excessive coverage to the activities of the left and some of its leaders.

He had also alleged that the daily had turned into an apologist for A Raja through the 2G scam coverage and remained silent on his resignation in the face of mounting evidence even when demanding Suresh Kalmadi, Ashok Chavan and B S Yeddyurappa's resignations in similar circumstances.

Ravi also had alleged the newspaper's pronounced pro-China tilt, blacking out or downplaying any news which was less than complimentary to the Chinese Communist regime.

Vardarajan's resignation also came amidst PIL filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy who had raised the issue of foreign editors in the Indian print media.

Swamy's petition had questioned legality of Vardarajan, an American citizen, holding the position of editor of a national daily.

His wife, Nandini Sundar, was booked by Sukma police for murder, criminal conspiracy and rioting on November 7, 2016, but the Chhattisgarh police, under Congress rule, gave her a clean chit this February.

NANDINI Sundar, in "Mahishasura: A People's Hero" book, raked up outrageous and malicious narratives about Goddess Durga being a prostitute, with an aim to not only celebrate Mahishasura, but also desecrate a much-revered Hindu deity.

She writes that the Brahmins were incompetent to defeat Mahishasura and hence, in a planned skulduggery, they sent a beauty in the form Durga. For eight continuous days, she served alchol and piled amusements on Mahishasura and on ninth day, seeing her chance, killed the demon.

All this she wrote based on a forwarded whats app message of Chhattisgarh-based CPI leader Manish Kunjam in a group he was part of.

The forward also noted that in Bengal, Durga idols are considered incomplete till earth is brought from the house of a sex worker.

So, the book attempts to create a wedge in the society by building a narration around Brahmin-Dalit or Aryan-Dravidian tug of war. And also convert it into an occasion of vengeful anti-Hinduism and obscene vilification of a Hindu deity to serve their own political agendas.

These evil attempts should be smothered. It can be done through counter-questions or counter-narratives. They must be asked how about thousands of other tribes across India venerating Durga.

The assertion of the traditional worship of Durga requiring the use of mud from the house of a prostitute has got nothing to do with any salacious alternative reading, but is a fine example of egalitarianism, where even fringe sections of society are not ignored for worshiping Goddess Durga.

These half-baked propagandists should also be countered by enlightening them that any worship of Durga also requires nominal worship of Mahishasura. The idea is that any asura who is killed by gods and goddesses attains liberation and becomes a part of their pantheon.

Also, they must be told that asuras mourn Mahishasura, not vilify and abuse Durga.

Such counter narratives have the potential of turning the Maoists' claims into unadulterated dung.

Is Modi govt sabotaging coal scam case to save Manmohan?

Senior advocate Rajinder Singh Cheema, on September 27, had sought relieving from the money laundering cases arising out of coal scam cases.

He made this prayer in the supreme court saying there is a shortage of law officers who can assist him in dealing with such money laundering cases.

However, the apex court bench, consisting justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant, refused to pass any order on Cheema's application and promised him of providing all necessary help.

The Supreme Court, in July 2014, had appointed Cheema as the Special Public Prosecutor in coal scam cases.

He has been making submissions on the behalf of CBI and ED in a court headed by Additional Sessions Judge Bharat Parashar.

Cheema's name was recommended by CBI special counsel Amarendra Saran to Supreme Court Bench monitoring the coal block investigation.

Now we shall come to the issue. This plea of Cheema has raised many questions on the intentions of Narendra Modi government to prosecute the accused, mainly former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a couple of big industrialists.

The questions are - Why Cheema is seeking relief from the case? Is the Narendra Modi government delaying prosecution or weakening the case? Is it afraid of electoral reverses if former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is imprisoned in the case?

I believe, the Lutyens brigade might love these questions from my side ...

IS GOVT TRYING TO SABOTAGE THE CASE?

Answers could lie in some of the developments that have been reported in media.

Consider this: The CBI failed to prove their charges against former coal secretary Harish Chandra Gupta in a special CBI court and was, in August, acquitted in the case.

The CBI failed to prove charges against Gupta that he had misled PMO into approving coal allocation. The court, in fact, said there was no chance for the government to be misled because it knew the purpose of use of coal by Pushp Steels and Mining Private Limited, which was granted lease.

It also failed to prove that Gupta took a unilateral decision to grant coal block. The court instead found this allegation to be incorrect. It held that the decision was not just Gupta's.

Further, the CBI did not seek many documents, which led special CBI court judge Bharat Parashar to summon Singh as an accused in the case.

In a submission before a special court in September 2015, former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda had accused Singh of consciously taking a decision to allot coal block to JSPL and GSIPL.

He had alleged that the allocation of Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block in Jharkhand to Jindal group was approved by Singh, who was also the then coal minister. Koda had argued that CBI's theory of conspiracy remains incomplete without Singh's involvement.

DELAYING TACTICS

Interestingly, the prosecution process has slowed down since March 2015 after AICC President Sonia Gandhi had led a solidarity march in Delhi in support of Singh, who was summoned as an accused by Justice Parashar.

The Congress leaders had attacked Modi government accusing it of maintaining a "studied silence" after CBI had told the court that there was no criminality involved in the allocation of Talabira coal blocks II to Hindalco company of Aditya Birla group in Odisha in 2005 when Singh also held the portfolio of coal.

Thereafter, Singh approached a supreme court bench and got stay over trial court's summons order.

Actually, Singh should have petitioned the coal scam monitoring bench, but petitioned a bench which did not have any direction.

Since, the CBI did not protest, a case with a no-direction-stay resulted in a permanent stay.

This is nothing but an alleged ploy to weaken the case against the former Prime Minister.