What's in a name.

Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi criticised the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a speech at Cambridge University in the UK. HT. "In my view, Mr Narendra Modi is destroying the architecture of India. I am not bothered about the two-three good things he is doing if he is blowing our country to smithereens. And I think that's what he is doing," he said. He has every right to object if he thinks the prime minister is wrong because it affects us all, but we cannot speak out for fear of being arrested under false charges. One of the agencies, "The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has said that only 2.98 percent of its overall ECIRs or complaints have been filed against serving or former MPs and MLAs even as its conviction rate under the anti-money laundering law is at a high of 96 percent." ET. That only a minuscule number of cases have been filed against politicians is not the point, what is important is how many, if any, members of the BJP have been charged. If not, why not? As for the claim of 96% conviction rate, "Since 2005, the ED, one of the premier investigating agencies in India handling economic offences, has registered 5,906 cases. Of them, the agency has managed to dispose only of 25 cases, a mere 0.42% of the total cases." The Wire. This, surely, has to be a classic example of 'terminological inexactitude' (wikipedia). The BJP instantly mounted a ferocious attack on Rahul Gandhi, TOI, with members competing to show their loyalty to their Messiah Mr Modi. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri called Mr Gandhi an "ass", The Print. Why is it alright to abuse Gandhi in vulgar language? Then there is the fairy tale of Mr Gautam Adani, once the second richest man in the world with a net worth of $156.3 billion, according to the Forbes list. HT. "Gautam Adani's elder brother, Vinod Adani, has been described by the media as 'an elusive figure'," said the Hindenburg report. "We have identified 38 Mauritius shell entities controlled by Vinod Adani or close associates. We have identified entities that are surreptitiously controlled by Vinod Adani in Cyprus, the UAE, Singapore, and several Caribbean Islands." A very serious charge of money laundering, to which an Adani group spokesperson said, "Vinod Adani does not hold any managerial position in any Adani listed entities or their subsidiaries and has no role in their day-to-day affairs." TOI. But, having categorically denied any association, "Vinod Adani, the elder brother of Adani group founder Gautam Adani, is part of the Adani promoter group, the group's flagship Adani Enterprises said." TIE. The ED should be galloping to investigate Adani's web of companies, seizing their accounts, arresting various officials and questioning them for hours, as they are doing to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia of the AAP party. ET. Mr Sisodia is apparently charged for an Excise policy scam in which alcohol was being sold at cheap rates in Delhi. How selling something cheaper can be a scam escapes us, but is clear to ED. Hence, "Modani has entered India's political lexicon," wrote Yogendra Yadav. "Clubbing Modi and Adani in the same word is a brilliant rhetorical device to establish the proximity that both of them evidently enjoy." The Messiah may have feet of clay, after all. That's why the obscene cacophony by sycophants.