Silence of secrets

MANY SECRETS LIE BURIED IN THE WOMB OF SILENCE. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitely, Rajsthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia and India's most known son-in-law Robert Vadra are parts of one such mysterious web of silence. 

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Despite losing elections and having been instrumental in BJP's humiliating loss at the hands of the maverick activist turned politician, who is also a brutal exponent of the art of politics of muck, Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi, Jaitely stays the most powerful minister in the Modi Cabinet. That Jaitely is the most pedestrian minister ever to head the Ministry of Finance is not a fact unknown to Modi. Yet, Jaitely's comfort is not an ounce less.

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Vasundhara Raje Scindia is a mass leader who delivered the most humiliating loss to Congress in Rajsthan. She has paced ahead of her own government at the Centre in unveiling reforms. But she is least heard at the national level. Not by default but it appears that by design she keeps distance from Modi and his government at the Centre. Modi is more than eager to para-drop at any place to associate himself with any landmark developmental works. Yet, Scindia chose to inaugurate the Jaipur Metro herself and did not share the honours with any Central BJP leaders. 

That she is miffed with Modi for non-inclusion of her son Dushyant Singh in the Modi Cabinet is an old tale. She had fought the Assembly elections in the state about six months before Modi got his landmark mandate on an issue, which is now buried in the womb of silence. And that was the alleged unscrupulous land deals involving Robert Vadra. Unlike Manohar Lal Khattar, who was hand-picked by Modi as chief minister of Haryana, 

Scindia is a popular state leader and no taint has yet touched her. She is not yet in the leagues of Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who had to complain to Sonia Gandhi against spirited Congress campaign over Vyapam scam in the state. Chattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh's name keeps being tossed in media reports over allegations of favouritism. Scindia has stayed away from such accusations and has a stature of her own in the state and the party.  

Robert Vadra's name was on the lips of Modi at each of the public rally he addressed in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. But "Damad ji" is not troubled a bit despite BJP forming government at the Centre a year ago and in Rajsthan one and a half years ago. BJP came to power in Haryana about six months ago. 

Senior Congress leaders who are not the camp followers of Rahul Gandhi claim to have some insight over the mystery. The book -- The enabler Narendra Modi -- has examined the mysterious silence at length. 

(Note: This post was written before the controversy surrounding Lalit Modi unfolded and has become all the more relevant now.)

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