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Karan Thapar: NaMo loves to speak. So why is he silent on Jay Amitbhai Shah?
by Guest Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:13 am
TheWire.in reports that the turnover of one of Jay Shah’s companies “increased 16,000 times over in the year following the election of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister”. NDTV adds that in the same year loans to two of Jay Shah’s companies “rose to 53.4 crore, a jump of 4,000 per cent” compared to a total of Rs 1.3 crore upto 2013-14.
Going into further detail, the two media houses say one of the companies, Temple Enterprises, received an unsecured loan of Rs 15.76 crore even though it had a 10 year “unimpressive track record”. A second company, Kusum Finserve, incorporated in 2012 and with meagre profits of Rs 1.73 crore after a first year loss, received a line of credit of Rs 25 crore. NDTV even questions if it was entitled to this credit. The Wire adds Kusum Finserve, despite no experience in the energy or infrastructure sectors, received a Rs 10.35 crore loan from a public sector enterprise IREDA to set up “a 2.1 MW wind energy plant”.
All of this leads NDTV to comment: “Whether he (Jay Shah) was deserving, or benefited from a famous surname, can only be established by an inquiry”. Separately, The Wire has reported that Tushar Mehta, additional solicitor general, secured permission to represent Jay Shah in court, even though government law officers can only represent private parties in exceptional circumstances. The website also claims this was granted on October 6, though its story on Shah, which was the first to appear, was only published on October 8.
Several questions are now likely to come to the mind of the Indian voter.
If the Shah story is reminiscent of the Vadra episode, don’t the prime minister’s comments in 2013 and 2015 apply as much to the former as they do to the latter?
If one was an example of “bhai-bhateejavad” isn’t that also true of the other?
If Vadra’s good fortune creates suspicion because his mother-in-law is Congress president, are we not entitled to ask whether Shah’s luck is connected to his father’s position as BJP president?
In Vadra’s case, nothing criminal has so far been found – and that’s also true of Jay Shah – but that didn’t stop the opposition and media raising doubts, so now if the opposition and media are doing the same to Shah, is it really unprecedentedly awful and unwarranted? Indeed, isn’t it the duty of the two to raise questions in the interest of democracy even if, occasionally or more often, they turn out to be misplaced?
Both as a candidate and in office the prime minister had a lot to say about Robert Vadra. It was, of course, mainly based on suspicion but the Indian people applauded him for it. Today’s he’s silent. So don’t we have the right to ask why a man who loves to speak suddenly has nothing to say?
https://thewire.in/187032/modi-loves-speak-silent-jay-amitbhai-shah/
Going into further detail, the two media houses say one of the companies, Temple Enterprises, received an unsecured loan of Rs 15.76 crore even though it had a 10 year “unimpressive track record”. A second company, Kusum Finserve, incorporated in 2012 and with meagre profits of Rs 1.73 crore after a first year loss, received a line of credit of Rs 25 crore. NDTV even questions if it was entitled to this credit. The Wire adds Kusum Finserve, despite no experience in the energy or infrastructure sectors, received a Rs 10.35 crore loan from a public sector enterprise IREDA to set up “a 2.1 MW wind energy plant”.
All of this leads NDTV to comment: “Whether he (Jay Shah) was deserving, or benefited from a famous surname, can only be established by an inquiry”. Separately, The Wire has reported that Tushar Mehta, additional solicitor general, secured permission to represent Jay Shah in court, even though government law officers can only represent private parties in exceptional circumstances. The website also claims this was granted on October 6, though its story on Shah, which was the first to appear, was only published on October 8.
Several questions are now likely to come to the mind of the Indian voter.
If the Shah story is reminiscent of the Vadra episode, don’t the prime minister’s comments in 2013 and 2015 apply as much to the former as they do to the latter?
If one was an example of “bhai-bhateejavad” isn’t that also true of the other?
If Vadra’s good fortune creates suspicion because his mother-in-law is Congress president, are we not entitled to ask whether Shah’s luck is connected to his father’s position as BJP president?
In Vadra’s case, nothing criminal has so far been found – and that’s also true of Jay Shah – but that didn’t stop the opposition and media raising doubts, so now if the opposition and media are doing the same to Shah, is it really unprecedentedly awful and unwarranted? Indeed, isn’t it the duty of the two to raise questions in the interest of democracy even if, occasionally or more often, they turn out to be misplaced?
Both as a candidate and in office the prime minister had a lot to say about Robert Vadra. It was, of course, mainly based on suspicion but the Indian people applauded him for it. Today’s he’s silent. So don’t we have the right to ask why a man who loves to speak suddenly has nothing to say?
https://thewire.in/187032/modi-loves-speak-silent-jay-amitbhai-shah/
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