: Tainted turn ‘clean’ in BJP #IndiaNEWS #India Hyderabad: The BJP appears to have a purifier effect on ‘tainted’ leaders who join the party. How else does one explain the phenomenon of leaders

Tainted turn ‘clean’ in BJP #IndiaNEWS #India
Hyderabad: The BJP appears to have a purifier effect on ‘tainted’ leaders who join the party. How else does one explain the phenomenon of leaders from opposition parties facing serious charges of corruption and financial irregularities suddenly turning up squeaky clean once they join the saffron party?
From Himanta Biswa Sarma to Jyotiraditya Scindia, from Suvendhu Adhikari to Mukul Roy and CM Ramesh to YS Chowdary, all were facing the heat from one government investigating agency or the other, and in some cases, banks too, before they switched loyalties to the BJP. Once they came under the saffron flag, voila, they were either declared clean or the CBI, ED or IT cases against them went under the rug. Is this the magic of the ‘Nirma powder from Gujarat’ that union Minister of State for Railways Raosaheb Patil
Danve once proudly proclaimed had cleansing power?
Be that as it may, Telangana Today curated a list of opposition politicians facing investigation by CBI, Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax and other such agencies for ‘serious misdeeds’ and are now virtually free birds after joining the BJP.
One prominent example is Himanta Biswa Sarma, whom the BJP had once accused of involvement in the infamous Louis Berger case (a US-based company) in Assam through a booklet issued at its New Delhi headquarters. But everything changed when Sarma joined BJP in August 2015. Not only does one hear anything about the investigation into the cases against him, but Sarma has since emerged a much stronger person heading the BJP government in Assam!
In March 2020, former union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia decided to quit the Congress and joined the BJP along with 22 MLAs that led to the toppling of the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh. Before his switch over, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Madhya Pradesh was looking afresh into a complaint against Scindia and his family members following accusations of falsifying a property document while selling land in Gwalior in 2009. However, the case was closed soon after he joined the BJP which brought the Shivraj Singh Chauhan government back to power in MP.
Similarly, the then West Bengal Transport Minister Suvendhu Adhikari, a key leader of Trinamool Congress, faced charges from the ED in connection with the Narada sting operation case which exposed some TMC leaders receiving money from representatives of a fictitious company in lieu of favours. But he joined the BJP in December 2020. Subsequently, the CBI arrested two West Bengal Ministers, a TMC MLA and a former TMC leader in May 2021, but Adhikari, now Opposition leader in the WB Assembly, was untouched.
Similar is the case of TMC general secretary-turned-BJP MP Mukul Roy, an accused in the Sharada chit fund scam.

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