Ahmedabad: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi during the last parliament session was claiming that he had something about personal corruption by Narendra Modi which may cause earthquake if he is given chance to speak. Today in Mehsana rally of Congress party, Rahul spoke Modi’s name repeatedly in reference to so called Sahara and Birla diaries. It seems Rahul was indicating this allegation as earthquake! Now the fact is, this accusation is not even comparable with balloon burst, forget earthquake! This same allegation was made by AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal in a press conference about a month ago. NGO operator lawyer Prashant Bhushan had went to the Supreme Court with these same allegations. Do read what happened on 14th of December in Supreme Court. How Prashant Bhushan was slammed for his allegations without substance. Following points are from the text of the Indian Express story:

-The Supreme Court Wednesday cautioned Bhushan’s NGO against making unsubstantiated allegations against constitutional functionaries, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

-The Supreme Court observed that it would not order an inquiry on the basis of Income Tax papers relating to raids at Aditya Birla Group and Sahara companies unless there was credible material to suggest illegal payoffs to politicians.
-“This is becoming very abnormal for us. What we told you (petitioner)… give us smallest material. We will deal with it… How will a constitutional authority function if you are going to make such allegations? We don’t see even the smallest material to substantiate your accusations,” a bench of Justices J S Khehar and Arun Mishra told advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for NGO Common Cause.

-The bench told Bhushan: “You are only making aspersions… and aspersions create false perception. How will constitutional functionaries work if such aspersions are cast without any material? We will certainly act but there has to be some material first.”

-The bench said it does not want to keep the matter pending and asked Bhushan to adduce reliable materials by December 16.

-Bhushan, when complained about not getting sufficient time for placing on record the relevant documents, was told by court: “No. It is not unreasonable as you are dealing with very high functionaries. You bring very firm and very clear material. You bring it, we have no difficulty,” , adding it has a settled proposition that a petition must have some material.

-The bench told Bhushan that it is very difficult for a person to function against whom aspersions are made. The court also recalled that on November 25, it had asked for credible material before the petition could be admitted.

-On November 25, the bench had maintained that ordering an investigation based merely on unverified entries made in a diary or on a computer would have “far-reaching” consequences since “unscrupulous people” could bring the entire world, and even the Prime Minister, under a cloud by simply recording entries of payoffs. The court had said that documents adduced by NGO ‘Common Cause’ were neither authentic nor credible enough for an inquiry to be launched into the veracity of the entries on payments allegedly made to various politicians.

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So what Prashant Bhushan did then? He approached the Supreme Court seeking recusal of Justice J S Khehar from hearing his PIL further, as Justice Khehar didn’t deliever him a favorable verdict. Supreme Court, no doubt was irked by Bhushan’s plea.

Even after Supreme Court’s clear stand on December 14 in this issue, Rahul Gandhi choose to make same allegations against the PM in today’s public meeting in Gujarat. While some people may believe in what Rahul said, for those who apply some mind would stop taking Rahul seriously if they haven’t already done that so far!

Alleging anything and get away has anyway become a norm in Indian politics these days unfortunately.

DeshGujarat