BJP’s Yayati syndrome

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>[bJP News] BJP’s Yayati syndrome

>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 04:16:20 -0700

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>BJP’s Yayati syndrome

>Sandhya Jain

>The Pioneer

>13 June 2006

>

> Some time after the arrest of the Kanchi Acharyas, the BJP

>Think

>Tank hosted a talk where an ideologue defended the greatest civilizational

>insult Hindu India has suffered since the assassination of Guru Tegh

>Bahadur by

>a rabid Islamist ruler. The speaker diminished the seers and insinuated

>that

>chief minister Jayalalithaa would prove the charges against them in court.

>This

>caused grave disquiet among the audience and many bemoaned the low calibre

>of

>the BJP leadership that abysmally failed the Hindu community.

>

> I remember telling those who sought my views on the appalling

>state of

>the party that, having shed the Hindu cause under coalition compulsions,

>the

>aged leadership was reluctant to resume the Hindu burden. Like king Yayati,

>however, it was so intoxicated with office that it would not see the exit

>signs

>Fate was beaming so insistently. Like the king, it swallowed the youth of

>its

>children (Generation Next), for public good, of course. In the Mahabharata

>story, wisdom finally dawned and the old king sought to return his son’s

>youth.

>But that great renunciate refused to take back his gift, so father and son

>renounced the world together, after placing the grandson on the throne.

>Sadly,

>the BJP’s Geriatric Club thirsts for the youth of its grandchildren also

>(Generation Next to Next).

>

> Nothing illustrates this more vividly than the attitude

>towards

>the double tragedy that has hit the Mahajan family. The murderous assault

>on

>Pramod Mahajan was little more than a photo-op for some leaders, and a

>perfect

>excuse to cancel a flop yatra. BJP leaders maligning the late leader are

>oblivious of the possible political ramifications of the murder. If reports

>that assassin-brother Pravin had joined the Congress party a month before

>the

>crime are true, the case acquires a new dimension.

>

> Strangely, BJP has left the probe entirely to the police, who

>have

>taken Pravin’s anger that his brother did not make him richer, at face

>value.

>We know nothing about the persons Pravin was in touch with in the days and

>hours prior to and after the incident. After all, he took an unusually long

>time to reach Pramod’s place, and later, the police station. Pravin’s

>telephone

>records are being kept secret.

>

>A month later, Pramod’s secretary Bibek Moitra dies mysteriously and his

>only

>son, Rahul, barely survives. The conspiracy angle is obvious, but after the

>impromptu concern of president Rajnath Singh, a powerful force reins in

>party

>sympathizers. Sushma Swaraj (who dismissed the Ram Janmabhoomi as an

>encashed

>cheque) twice emerges from L.K. Advani’s residence to declaim that BJP has

>no

>truck with the tragedy. This approach suits a rival political entity

>admirably.

>Interestingly, amidst this baffling tragedy, NCP leader Sharad Pawar breaks

>ranks with Congress to field nationalist tycoon Rahul Bajaj for the Rajya

>Sabha. BJP supremos, who once preferred Sanjay Gandhi acolyte Lalit Suri

>and

>Congresswoman Najma Heptullah to Mr. Bajaj, have to concur.

>

>There is more to the Rahul Mahajan episode than meets the eye. On June 1,

>Sahil

>Zaroo takes Rahul Malhotra and Karan Ahuja to the house; with hindsight, it

>seems he needs witnesses to something likely to unfold there. They arrive

>at

>11.30 pm and after a private talk with Moitra (recently changed to Rahul),

>Sahil claims receiving Rs. 15,000/- to buy cocaine. Sahil and Karan buy

>five

>grams of cocaine from Vasant Vihar, and Karan decides to go home. Sahil

>returns

>alone; he and Moitra snort the stuff, but the latter says it is not genuine

>and

>demands a replacement. We do not know what Rahul Malhotra does all this

>time.

>

>Police say Moitra sent his driver Anil with Sahil and Rahul Malhotra to

>change

>the material, but now Rahul also opts out. Sahil is physically well at this

>point; he gets Trishay Khanna to accompany him to the Mahajan residence

>around

>2 am. As Sahil, Anil and Trishay enter the room, they find Moitra frothing

>at

>the mouth and Rahul’s body cold. Sahil calls the servants while the driver

>telephones former aide Harish Sharma for guidance.

>

>If Sahil went to change the dubious powder, what did Moitra and Rahul

>consume

>that caused such deterioration in their condition, and how? Did Sahil

>return

>merely to check their condition? What did Sahil imbibe that caused delayed

>illness, not serious enough to prevent him from flying to Srinagar? Sahil

>and

>Trishay had the presence of mind to remove Sahil’s car from the scene and

>get

>him an injection at Spring Meadows clinic; this suggests he got a specific

>antidote.

>

>Sahil’s lawyer claims his client met Moitra to get an air ticket to

>Srinagar

>released from the VIP quota. This is easy to verify, but it does not

>explain

>why Sahil went to the residence twice with ‘witnesses’. Police say Abdullah

>gave cocaine to Sahil, but Moitra died of heroin overdose, and servants say

>Sahil switched a packet of white powder in Moitra’s pocket. A television

>channel reveals that on the night of the crime Sahil made eighteen calls to

>Abdullah, one to a film producer, and numerous calls to the daughter of a

>Mumbai police officer. For someone intending to spend the night doing

>cocaine,

>it sounds strange.

>

>Something is rotten. Rahul Malhotra, Trishay Khanna and Karan Ahuja

>consider

>their moves, find a reputed narcotics lawyer, speak to a news channel, and

>then

>surrender to the police. Although it may have been too late to find alcohol

>in

>their blood, it is surprising they were not medically examined for

>consumption

>of drugs. If the police makes them approvers, the entire case will appear

>fraudulent and contrived. It is pertinent that after making a huge splash

>about

>Rahul using a five hundred rupee note to chase the cocaine (now heroin),

>the

>police have not told us if they recovered the remains of any such note;

>they

>have changed the quantity of drugs involved.

>

>The determination to prove that Rahul consumed and distributed drugs smacks

>of

>political vendetta. Defamatory stories are being planted against Moitra and

>Rahul. However, some observers point out that if Rahul really was a drug

>addict, he would have displayed the classic ‘withdrawal’ symptoms in

>custody.

>Yet Rahul has not asked jail authorities for a ‘fix’; such self-control is

>not

>possible for a ‘regular’ on the drug circuit.