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| A bustling market of Bairagarh |
The
local newspapers this morning brought in happy tidings. They carried the happy
news of a raid at the house of a BJP man who not too long ago was very close
the centre of power in the state. The news had broken last night about the
Income Tax officials’ raid at his premises which yielded, as has now become the
norm, hidden crores of rupees in old banned currency and new high value
currency plus quite a few silver biscuits.
The
raid took place in his house in Bairagarh where a few BJP biggies of the Centre
have also been hosted and entertained. The man concerned was given a position
in the state a few years ago equivalent to the status of a minister of state.
Proximity to power centre of the state probably had given rise to a sense of
immunity from action against his wrong-doings.
His
is a typical example of a good-for-nothing, unscrupulous man making good in
politics and reaping the pelf that is associated with power. He is reported to
have started off as a bus conductor from where he was summarily removed for
indulging in manipulation of cash. That’s when he moved into politics and
worked his way up getting closer and closer to local power centres. As he got
identified with power and powerful people the next step was for him to get
involved in wheeling and dealing. The money, mostly illegal, flowed in enabling
him to buy more support – political or extraneous. Something like that is
reported to have happened to him and the bubble that he had blown for himself
to cocoon in has now burst around him.
Bairagarh
is a suburb of Bhopal which has numerous rags-to-riches stories. Certainly not
all have acquired the riches by honourable means. Inside the nondescript façade
of houses there is luxury paved at every inch. If properly investigated, this
small suburb that hosts mostly wholesalers and traders can yield hundreds of crores
worth of illicit wealth. Bairagarh is known for smart business where the only
concern is personal profit without any obligation to society at large. Taxes
are seldom paid. Here everything goes – from passing off ‘duplicate’ material
as original to ‘hawala’ transactions in millions. That is why, as Balzac had
said, behind every fortune in Bairagarh there are crimes – yes crime in plural,
not in singular.
Reports
say the searches are yet to be conducted in several other properties of this
gentleman (?) We will be waiting for more revelations with bated breath, at the
same time wait for some more raids on such delinquents and sinful for whom
these, unfortunately, are hard times.
*Photo from internet
21st
December 2016
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