The VADRAloks Of Delhi

Let me change the age old saying at the top of the blog – ‘Democracy is BY the FAMILY, OF the FAMILY and FOR the FAMILY’. Not only family but even for the extended family reaching up to the 3^rd level grand and great grandchildren.

In an Open Letter To Rahul Gandhi sometime back I had raised the issue that one now associates with the first Damad of the nation, Robert Vadra. In a milder manner I had questioned the drama king on the reasons and tricks behind such phenomenal rise of someone who was at best an organized scrap dealer few years back. I even had asked the crown prince to come clean on the love-hate relationship that his beloved Jijaji enjoys with DLF and many such big real-estate mafias in and around Delhi NCR or may be throughout the country.

In that post, for visitors I had few regular bootlickers of the Congress first family, equipped with their volley of questions to substantiate their sycophancy. As expected of a typical Congress man whose fulltime job is to protect the first family at any cost and to fall in line with the standard Congress line of response when caught involved in a scam, I was asked if I have any proof of my claims. Like the Congress party and its full time engagement in fooling the nation, few even tried to fool me by accusing me of getting carried away by some BJP centric false propagandas. Now that, the national Damad is dragged into the mud and that too quite officially at that, I want to revisit all those who were alleging me as a paid writer for Bharatiya Janta Party back then.

Coming back to the topic; I wonder what is now the position of the Congress party. In last week alone this is the second instance when the taint of ‘misusing of power and position’ has hit the first family right where it hurts. Coupled with that, there is a separate allegation of being involved in some big time corruption by taking advantage of the position they quite undeservingly occupying. First it was the mother-in-law who was accused by Modi of wasting a huge lot of public money for her personal pleasure; now it is the turn of the son-in-law to bite the bullet when Arvind Kejriwal accused the Damad-E-Hind of connivance and nepotism with the realty giant DLF. In a story only seen in movies, the claims of Arvind explains the rags-to-riches journey of Robert Vadra; who was a complete unknown entity before becoming Robert Vadra Gandhi. Having minimal education and his family moving to India as refuges during partition from Sialkot in Pakistan, the Vadra family neither does have any background or acumen to accumulate in genuine and honest ways the amount of wealth that Robert seems to have garnered. We might fancy venturing in to technicalities, but it is for a fact that Robert Vadra is the quickest billionaire of the world from nothing by doing nothing extra ordinary. While such phenomenal success can make all those hardworking personalities like Bill Gates feel ashamed, in realty there is a huge pile of rot with-in, where I see lot of misuse of public money and position to felicitate such skyrocketing growth of the son-in-law. That said one thing where I see Arvind could be wrong is he forget to specify the region to which Mr. Vadra belongs as a billionaire. For records, he is in fact a billionaire in terms of the USA standards (US Dollars to be specific), unlike the Indian way many thought him to be. A man of only 2.75 lakhs before 1997 and struggling hard to keep his ailing scrap business going is a man of 7892 crores today. In a matter of fifteen years the imported entrant to Gandhi family has accumulated wealth, an equivalent of which took others like the Ambanis or Tatas a good half a century to earn.

The Congress reaction in whole of this is again funny to say the least. From out rightly washing their hands off the issue to now defending like trusted lieutenants; they have gone a full circle. First came the distancing, then the refuting, ending with some cross shit hurling. That is quite hilarious. No sooner Arvind Kejriwal made the allegations, half of Congress were all over the place via their paid accompanies like NDTV in distancing themselves from the issue. Excuse furnished in this regard is even more hilarious. Robert Vadra is a private person with no binding with Congress or vice-e-versa vis-à-vis the alleged nepotism and the inherit misuse of power tucked therein. Just about when I agreed to listen to any such claims, I saw the Rashid Alvis, Manish Tiwaris and Rajiv Shuklas of the world going momentous on air. A complete distancing act turned into a party matter or more of a Government matter quicker than the crisp index of a stock exchange changes its value. Now here I must take a pause and ask all those who were noncommittal when the issue was first blown out. If Mr. Vadra, minus his unofficial Gandhi surname is a complete private person then why on earth we have all the national spokespersons of Congress party pressed into service in defending him? What has Congress party got to do with whatever Mr. Robert Vadra Gandhi does in his personal capacity? If this is not the self-admission of guilt then I don’t know what else could be. I am told even Sonia Gandhi has ordered the sycophants to go all out in defending the rascal who in all probability has misused his position, in connivance with the powers that be in Delhi to channelize sweet deals for DLF in exchange of huge favors.

In all of this the reactions of Salman Khurshid is more than shoddy. He probably was the first among the clownish lot who took a revengeful stance. Being the law minister himself, he went on records to say, there is a lookout of options within the law to teach a lesson to all such entities who dare to point the rot within the sacrosanct family. He is the law minister. Isn’t he? Rather making avenues to investigate all such claims, which in all probability look dubious, he is head-over-heels with his plans to shoot the messenger. I would love to hear, how this precise peace of statement is not miscarriage of our criminal justice system and want to confirm if he is an appointee for the state or Congress, Gandhi family and Robert Vadra.

Even the response of the Congress party as a whole is hypocritical. Not long back, Sashi Tharoor had to go through a similar scenario. Poor Tharoor has to lose his job because her then girlfriend (not even wife) was accused of gaining few sweet deals from an IPL team for being in close proximity with a minister of state. Noted be here, that any such claims are yet to be proved anywhere. Where was the same Congress brigade then? Why I never saw the spokespersons shouting atop the tallest building of the town and swearing by the honesty of Mr. Tharoor? Why Mr. Tharoor has to lose his post without any charge being proved? And why all this happened? A dubious character like Lalit Modi Tweeted the accomplishment of Sashi Tharoor in some kind of backdoor dealings. On the same yardstick what should have been the reaction of Congress now? Shouldn’t Sonia Gandhi along with his theatrical son be asked to leave till the charges are proved otherwise? If stringent actions could be taken on the basis a tweet from a shaky character like Lalit Modi, Arvind Kejriwal is a far cleaner and more believable figure on any given day. Why there is a completely different reaction from Congress this time around? Why I don't see those strict measures against the Gandhi family when they could very well act against Sashi Tharoor for pretty much the same reasons? Or expecting some rationality from Congress in matters dealing with Gandhi family is a tough proposition?

All said and done, let me revel this. Since day one, from the name itself I was sure the nonsense called Robert Vadra would someday get engaged in some kind of huge corruption acts. After 15 years wait, now I see the rascal proved not only my apprehensions but also my sixth sense correct. Thank you Mr. Robert Vadra Gandhi; you are class apart in true manner.