Degrees of filth.

Today's TOI features details of dubious business dealings of BJP President, Nitin Gadkari. TOI has uncovered that Mr Gadkari's driver, Manohar Panse is a director of 5 of Purti Power and Sugar ltd investor companies and a director of 6 other companies, floated by Mr Gadkari, between 2009 and 2011. Mr Panse is apparently unaware of his position as director of so many companies as is his wife. Rajesh Khanzode,an employee in Purti's bakery unit and Vishnu Sharma, an astrologer from Mumbai are also directors of 2 companies in Purti group. Not being experts of company law we are unable to understand how Mr Gadkari gains personally from having his driver or a bakery employee as directors of his companies unless he is using them as fronts for money laundering or for diluting his tax liability. Mr Gadkari is said to have been given a loan of Rs 1.64 billion by on Dattatray P Mhaiskar whose family runs a construction business. Apparently this company was given contracts worth Rs 600 million when Mr Gadkari was PWD Minister of Maharashtra between 1995 and 1999. That is just peanuts compared to the amount of the loan given to Mr Gadkari's companies. The maths just do not add up but since we do not have any knowledge of how corruption works in India we are unable to make any sense of the allegations. Meanwhile Mr Vir Bhadra Singh, Congress nominee for the post of Chief Minister of Himachal, has threatened to break the cameras of journalists for asking him about charges of massive accounted wealth. Mr Salman Khurshid has threatened that Mr Kejriwal will not return alive if he is to visit Farrukhabad. Mr Khurshid also said that we should listen to what he has to say and not ask any questions because he knows how to work with blood. Mr Vadra, son in law of Ms Sonia Gandhi, opined that we are " Mango people in a banana republic " when questioned about properties worth billions owned by companies owned by him. He has not explained why the properties are owned by 4 or 5 companies. Surely if the deals were kosher one company would have sufficed. While we see the joke in " mango people " which is a direct translation of aam aadmi for which the Congress bleeds, it is because of terrible crimes in the 8 years of Congress misrule that India is now a banana republic. Politicians are so accustomed to looting our money that they become enraged at being questioned. The press being Congress agents will try to muddy waters to confuse people. However, crimes of another person do not condone crimes by Congress. It only confirms our belief that politicians are scum.