Nowadays, Robert Vadra is very much active on social network and attacking BJP and its ruling government on it. Amid controversy regarding Robert Vadra’s presence in the list of select VVIPs exempted from frisking in airports, he urged government to withdraw his name. Vadra has said that he is not a VIP and his name should be removed from that list. He also felt that it may be a conspiracy to malign his name. He said that he has never used this privilege. The government had earlier clarified that it had no plans of removing Robert Vadra from the no-frisking list. Vadra insisted that he had earlier also consented to removing his name from the list. He said that in any case it just takes a minute to get frisked and he had no problem with subjecting himself to such checks like ordinary citizens. Vadra said if he needs to he would physically go to all airports to remove his name from the list. He also urged those outraging on this issue to dedicate time to more on critical problems. These statements were really considered as a big slap on BJP’s face from Vadra. The Home Ministry had recently asked the Civil Aviation Ministry to go ahead with its plan to review the list of 33 categories of people, including the Dalai Lama and Vadra.
More than a year after coming into power, Narendra Modi-led NDA government now has finally removed Vadra’s name from the “no-frisking” list at the country’s airports. Vadra had repeatedly urged the government to scrap his name from the VVIP list. Reacting to the government’s step, Vadra wrote on Facebook: “I appreciate that my name will not appear in the VVIP list anymore. I hope this is a dead issue now and will not be used against me. My Best wishes. Vadra has appreciated the development. He had also said earlier that he was not interested in the special privilege.
Clearing the government’s stand, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said that if Vadra wanted his name to be deleted earlier, he should have written a letter rather than posting it on Facebook. The issue of Vadra’s exemption from frisking and checking at airport had been raised many times. Gajapathi Raju had last year said that the no-frisking list should be meaningful and not “ornamental”. Anyway, there are many sides to this story. On social network, BJP supporters are cherishing this status of Vadra, whereas Congress supporters have reason to overpower BJP stating that Vadra forced BJP to do this.
Robert Vadra is Priyanka Gandhi’s husband. He is the son-in-law of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, and a member of the Nehru family by marriage. In the recent times, he grabbed headlines because of his controversial relations and land dealings with DLF group. In October 2012, Arvind Kejriwal accused Vadra of taking an interest-free loan of Rs. 65 crores and heavy bargains on land from DLF Limited in exchange for political favours. DLF responded that it had dealt with Vadra as a private entrepreneur, which the loan was Business Advance which was given, as per practice of trade, to make payments for land purchased from Vadra, that the company did not sell him land at a throwaway price, and that no quid pro quo took place.
After the controversy, Robert Vadra’s Facebook comment “Mango people in a banana republic” that was later deleted, had become widespread punchline for the news reporters and the public to talk about. Then civil society activist and now chief minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal had raised questions over the rise in his fortune. Kejriwal was claimed that the evidence pouring in from mango men from across the country. Mango men would prove to be nemesis for the powerful. Numerous reports have questioned veracity of balance-sheets of Vadra-owned companies, which claim to have received an overdraft of Rs. 7.94 crores from Corporation Bank. Corporation Bank has now denied ever providing an overdraft facility to that amount. Vadra, has been repeatedly targeted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP over his same controversial land deals, which allegedly led to windfall gains for his company. However, so far neither Modi nor Kejriwal could prove anything against Vadra or Gandhi family. They have miserably failed to prove them guilty. BJP lost its credibility by alleging the Gandhi and Vadra but failed to prove those allegations of loot, having Swiss Bank Account and Black Money. Now, just to satisfy their false ego they are using unwanted tactics to keep up self-image.
BJP is creating hue and cry against Vadra for land deal in Haryana and Rajasthan to fool public to gain political mileage. Public is losing faith in the BJP government as it fails to arrest and convict allegedly corrupt leaders of UPA who have recklessly looted public money of country by abusing power as claimed by BJP and its then Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. The public will teach lesson to BJP like they had done to Congress if it fails to convict corrupts indulged in corruption during 10 years of UPA regime. Frisking or no frisking, Vadra will not lose anything as long as Congress is here. However, with such cheap traits BJP and NDA will lose its sheen with time.
Anyway, the countdown has begun for BJP’s bad days?
