CENTRAL AGENCIES KNOCKING OPPOSITION’S DOORS IN ELECTION TIMES ONLY; THE GREAT COINCIDENCE.
The DMK leader Stalin’s daughter Senthamarai was raided by the Income Tax department on Friday of last week and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached the properties of TMC leaders Kunal Ghosh and Satabdi Roy in West Bengal this depicts an interesting pattern.
By Youngistan News,April 6, 2021.
DMK leader Stalin’s daughter Senthamarai was raided by the Income Tax department on Friday in Tamilnadu and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached properties of TMC leaders Kunal Ghosh and Satabdi Roy on Saturday in West Bengal these actions of the central agencies depicts a pattern of how the opposition party leaders come under radar exactly before or during the poll times in respective states. Be it the state assembly elections or Loksabha polls central agencies from ED to CBI or may it be the Income Tax department always go on the doors of the opposition leaders of that particular state. Specially these raids are observed in the states they govern. The allegation against these agencies about their actions are influenced by the politics are denied by these agencies every time they come up but a fix pattern has been observed over time.
Have a look at these:
Maharashtra:
• In September 2019 the Enforcement Directorate filed a alleged money laundering case against NCP chief Sharad Pawar and his nephew and current deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar related with Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank scam. These case was registered just before the Assembly elections in Maharashtra. This case is still under investigation.
• In August 2019 the ED questioned MNS chief Raj Thackeray about a case of money laundering related to IL&FS group’s loan equity investment for over Rs. 850 crore in a Company where Thackeray was a partner till 2009 the company’s name was Kohinoor CTNL. This case in also under investigation and this enquiry happened before elections too. Many observed change in Raj Thackeray’s election campaign after this enquiry.
WEST BENGAL:
• Rujira Banerjee wife of TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee who is a nephew of Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee was questioned by the CBI in an alleged coal scam case in February 2021. CBI also summoned Ankush Arora husband of Abhishek’s sister-in-law Menaka Gambhir, and her Father-in-law Pawan Arora.
• In two different cases related to chit funds state minister Parth Chatterjee and former minister Madan Mitra was summoned by ED in March. Mitra and Chatterjee both are contesting elections on TMC tickets.
• TMC’s Jorasanko candidate Vivek Gupta was questioned in Sharad hit fund scam. This enquiry also happened in March.
KARNATAKA
• Nearly 70 properties of D K Shivakumar the energy minister in the congress government was searched by the Income Tax department in the period between August 2 and August 5 2017. All the premises belonging to the relatives and aides of Shivakumar was thoroughly searched for days. These properties were located across Bengaluru, Mysuru, Delhi and Chennai. The I-T searches took place even as Shivakumar was protecting a group pf 42 Congress MLA’s from Gujrat in a resort near Bengaluru to help senior Gujrat Congress leader Ahmed Patel win Rajyasabha polls which were scheduled on August 8.
• A case of tax evasion and false evidence was filed against Shivakumar in 2018 based on I-T department’s 2017 searches. Shivakumar was arrested by ED in connection with an alleged money laundering case registered in 2018 as result of the I-T probe, in September 2019. Following the Income Tax department enquiry the CBI also registered a case against Shivakumar.
RAJASTHAN
• Homes and businesses of Rajiv Arora and Dharmendra Rathore were searched by Income Tax and ED in July last year. Arora and Rathore are the close associates of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and these searches happened when the ruling party Congress was going through a crisis. Rathore was chairman of Rajasthan State Seeds Corporation and Arora was owner of Amrapali Jewels.
• In July former Olympian and Congress MLA Krishna Poonia was questioned by CBI in a case related to suicide of police officer Vishnu Dutt Bishnoi happened in Churu on 23rd March.
• In connection with an alleged fertiliser scam Agrasen Gehlot brother of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was searched by the ED.
MADHYA PRADESH
• Ahead of Loksabha polls, in April 2019, 52 locations owned by close aides of then Chief Minister Kamal Nath were raided by the Income Tax department, alleging tax evasion and hawala transactions.
CHHATISGARH
• Before Assembly elections of Chhatisgarh in 2018, CBI and ED named and accused Bhupesh Baghel in a CD scandal. Vinod Varma a journalist who was arrested by the CBI became political advisor to Baghel when he became Chief Minister.
KERALA
• The NIA registered a FIR under the stringent UAPA in a case of gold smuggling in July 2020. In September M Sivasankar who was a principal secretary to CM was questioned by NIA and arrested by ED in October.
• Swapna Suresh who is a key accused in a gold case, had claimed that the smuggling was done at the behest of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan aacording to ED and Customs department this claim happened weeks before assembly elections in Kerala this year.
• The son of CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan was arrested on August 29 last year by the Enforcement Directorate from Bengaluru. The ED booked him for alleged money laundering. Balakrishnan quit his post because of this.
• For questioning in the case of alleged forex violation the ED summoned officials of Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), of which CM Pinarayi Vijayan is the chairman.
TAMILNADU
• In September 2020, a case of corruption was registered by the CBI against some bank officials and DMK leader Poonjolai Srinivasan. The case was based on Rs. 11 crore which were recovered in a raid by the Income Tax before the 2019 polls in Vellore.
• ED seized assets worth Rs. 89 crore belonging to DMK MP S Jagathrakshakan and his family in a case of alleged forex violation, in September. Assets worth Rs. 8.6 crore belonging to another DMK MP Gautam Sigamani were also seized by the ED in the same case.
ANDHRA PRADESH
• Months before Andhra Pradesh elections in November 2018, the ED raided TDP MP YS Chowdary in a case of alleged money laundering related to a bank loan fraud. Many luxury cars owned by Chowdary were also seized. In April 2019, before the Assembly polls Chowdary joined the BJP.
• Another TDP MP CM Ramesh also joined BJP ahead of the polls. The I-T has previously raided his premises too.
J&K
• PDP youth leader Waheed-Ur-Rehman Parra was arrested by the NIA on 25th November ahead of the elections of DDC in Jammu and Kashmir in an alleged terror case. The NIA summoned Parra a day after he filed his nomination papers for the DDC elections. Parra won the elections while he was in jail. He got bail and later he was picked up by the Jammu Kashmir Police Counter Intelligence Unit. Since then he has been jailed.
• The ED issued a provisional order attaching the properties of former Chief Minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah under the prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) this happened on December 9, a day before the voting for the 5th place of the DDC elections. Farooq Abdullah had been appointed president of People’s Alliance For Gupkar Declaration ( PAGD), an amalgam of mainstream political parties that decided to fight for the restoration of the pre-August 5, 2019 status of the J&k.
