MLA Acquisition: isn't it unmitigated corruption?

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan "insulted the people of Goa" at the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting on 28 May, complained Goa Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho to the media, wrote Vivek Menezes. Thiagarajan is of the DMK party which won the assembly election held last month, in alliance with the Congress, defeating the AIADMK/BJP alliance, while Godinho is from the BJP. The DMK, with its alliance partners, won 158 seats in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly, Times of India (TOI). In reply to Godinho's complaint, Thyagarajan tweeted that "enduring the noise from this empty vessel y'day was the worst TORTURE of my political career", Mint. He went on to say that Godinho was "highly repetitive, largely vacuous, hectoring, mostly redundant to others' inputs", and wondered "whether he's limited in comprehension, in honesty, or both" and also that Godinho was "vociferously and repeatedly, against lowering the GST on Covid-related Drugs & Vaccines from 5% to 0% on humanitarian grounds". And to add salt to the would he advised the BJP "to impose some minimal quality in its 'MLA Acquisition' procedures". By "MLA Acquisition" he probably took a dig at the BJP's habit of engineering defections from other parties. In the assembly election in Goa in 2017 the BJP won 13 seats to 17 by the Congress, elections.in, but the BJP has a large majority in the assembly today by engineering defections from the Congress, including those accused of raping a minor and running an illegal gambling racket, The Print. Recently, at least 75 people died due to lack of oxygen in the government run Goa Medical College and Hospital, Al Jazeera. The BJP took control of Puducherry by engineering defections from the Congress/DMK alliance, wrote Rajdeep Sardesai. "In a sense, Puducherry is now part of a pattern of Machiavellian intrigue that has been repeated from Arunachal and Manipur to Goa, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh where a ruthlessly expansionist BJP seeks to consolidate its ascendancy by wangling either wholesale or retail defections," Hindustan Times (HT). Last year, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot alleged that "the BJP, which is the main opposition in the state, was offering MLAs up to Rs 15 crore (Rs 150 million) or 'favours' to switch allegiance and help topple his government", NDTV. In November 2020, the Congress in Gujarat "released a couple of videos of an undated sting operation, where former Congress MLA from Limbdi, Somabhai Patel, is seen admitting that Congress MLAs, including himself, were paid sums of money to resign before the Rajya Sabha election in Gujarat", TOI. Since members of the Rajya Sabha are elected by state assemblies, by reducing the number of Congress MLAs, the BJP would have elected more of its own candidates from Gujarat, thus increasing the number of its members in the upper house, which would allow it to pass any law it chooses with ease. In the recent assembly election in Kerala the BJP failed to win any seat, Election Commission of India. "The BJP is at the centre of another storm over poll funds in Kerala with an alliance leader in the state claiming that her party's chief, a prominent tribal face, had demanded Rs 10 crore (Rs 100 million) from BJP state president K Surendran to return to the NDA before the Assembly elections -- and finally pocketed Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million)," The Indian Express. During assembly election, "What started as a money heist on a highway in April has now snowballed into a political controversy in Kerala, especially within the BJP in the state. The case in question involves a huge amount of money -- supposedly Rs 3.5 crore (Rs 35 million) -- that was claimed to be looted on a state highway while it was being transported between two districts in Kerala," The News Minute. Whose money was it and did BJP leaders loot that money? The BJP desperately wanted to win the assembly election in West Bengal, but the Trinamool Congress won with two-thirds majority, Business Insider. In an act of vengeance, while West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay was coordinating relief after Cyclone Yaas, he was abruptly transferred to Delhi and threatened with 2 years in prison under the Disaster Management Act, The Wire. The BJP is becoming a disaster for India. How low can it sink?