Whose muck will stink the most? Elections will show.

Congress Vice President, Rahul Gandhi has alleged that the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi received kickbacks 9 times as Chief Minister of Gujarat. A total of Rs 650 million was paid to Modi, he said. He received Rs 50 million 7 times and Rs 25 million twice, which comes to a total of Rs 400 million, from the Sahara group. Apparently, the income tax authorities are in possession of papers from the Birla group, one of which says,"Gujarat CM (to be paid) Rs 25 crore, Rs 12 crore paid, the rest?" Which means that, according to Gandhi, Modi has been paid Rs 520 million already and but he is not sure of the remaining Rs 130 million. These same documents, which appear show these payments, were produced by lawyer Prashant Bhushan in a Public Interest Litigation in front of the Supreme Court and were deemed as "fictitious", "not authentic" and "zero" by the court. How the court deemed the documents "fictitious" we do not know but surely providing fake documents to the Supreme Court amounts to perjury and Bhushan should have been punished. The Congress says that Gandhi will provide further proof in the New Year. If there is no proof why is Rahul Gandhi making wild allegations? Won't people laugh at him? At first, maybe, but if he keeps repeating the allegations some will say there must be some truth in it. After all, there can be no smoke without fire. This is great strategy. Just as the Congress party is nothing without the Nehru-Gandhi family so the BJP has now come to mean Narendra Modi, who came to power as a crusader against corruption. So, if Rahul manages to tarnish his image a tiny bit it may translate into enough votes to make a significant difference in the coming assembly elections in UP and Punjab. Naturally the BJP has rushed into Modi's defence saying that he is "pure as Ganga". People in India have a deep-rooted contempt for all politicians. Honesty is relative to others, so Modi has to be defended. "I condemn the irresponsible, shameful allegations of Rahul...the public will never believe this," said Ravi Shankar Prasad. "Congressmen and even the family has been named in AgustaWestand investigations. It is not surprising that they resorted to this baseless tactic given that they're feeling cornered." Who has done the naming? Was it our government, the CBI or the courts? No. The Italian courts have sentenced 2 officials to prison for bribery in the case and have held Indian officials guilty of taking bribes. Has anything happened in India? A big no. A commission implicated Gandhi's brother-in-law, Robert Vadra in a land deal. Has he been punished? Vadra has been taunting Modi about using banks to catch people with black money. Throw muck at each other and eventually everyone stinks. We watch in despair.