{"id":636,"date":"2014-10-28T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derek.in\/mp\/?p=636"},"modified":"2021-07-23T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T08:37:21","slug":"the-black-money-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derek.in\/mp\/the-black-money-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Money Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2026 The BJP has made a laughing stock of itself.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The higher they rise, the harder they fall. Narendra Modi\u2019s crack communication strategy, which served him so well in the past few years and hyped and exaggerated his achievements in Gujarat to an extraordinary degree before the 2014 Lok Sabha election, suddenly seems to have deserted him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Karna, his government cannot seem to recall the crucial mantras when it needs them most. With the black money fiasco, the government, so cocky and hubristic till the other day, has made a laughing stock of itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By taking over the black money case from the Finance Ministry and saying it will directly monitor the investigations, the Supreme Court has expressed a deep lack of confidence in the Modi regime. This has only confirmed that the government was not and is not serious about unearthing the truth about illegal funds lying abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note the government\u2019s actions in the past few days. It began by mimicking its predecessor, the discredited UPA government, and refusing to release the names shared by foreign governments and agencies. Its excuse was exactly that of the previous government, an excuse the BJP had pooh-poohed while in opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then it said it would \u201cleak\u201d names, following that it said it would \u201cshare\u201d some names. What finally appeared were three names of inconsequential businesspersons \u2013 with very little money in their bank accounts.Between the Congress and the BJP, the black money account-holders have been given ample time to withdraw their money and park it elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the government began leaking names of rival politicians to \u201cfriendly journalists\u201d, again following the very skulduggery and cloak-and-dagger use of the media that Modi had criticised with such venom and mocked as part of the so-called \u201cDelhi culture\u201d. Had the Supreme Court not come down so hard, in the coming weeks, more names would have been \u201crevealed\u201d to more \u201celite journalists\u201d and \u201cpseudo-secular news channels\u201d. And chargesheets and convictions, or actual return of black money (promised in 100 days)? You thought the BJP was serious?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the feedback on Twitter. Modi\u2019s biggest backers are cursing his government. What a communication and perception mess. And so quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 The BJP has made a laughing stock of itself. The higher they rise, the harder they fall. 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