Accounts are a must.

The general election to elect 543 members of India's Lok Sabha must be held by May, as the 5-year term for the lower house of the parliament is set to expire on 16 June 2024. wikipedia. "Undoubtedly the strategic and overarching objective of the 2024 battle is a comprehensive defeat for Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party," but "So far, Modi has been allowed a free pass. If things have gone wrong, if the promises have not been kept, if the criminals and crooks have not been brought to heel, if the Chinese have encroached in territories previously under our control, if black money has made a triumphant return, if terrorists continue to target army officers in Kashmir, and if Manipur continues to simmer with tension and conflict - it is someone else's fault," wrote Harish Khare. These are not all. This government has been using investigative agencies, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to harass and imprison opposition leaders without proving charges in court. In September 2022, "during the BJP-led NDA's eight year's of governance, which has seen a shrinking opposition, 118 of at least 124 prominent leaders - nearly 95% - who faced CBI probes belonged to opposition parties." Quint. It is not just that the opposition has to win, it is that Mr Modi and all those, including politicians, civil servants and maybe even some judges who have benefited from his activities, cannot afford to lose this election because the spotlight will then fall on their activities and the retaliation could be severe. They must win at any cost. A judge in Gujarat High Court fined Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for asking to see Mr Modi's certificates of higher education. TOI. Surely, it is basic to the nation's security that the prime minister should be who he is? Till March of 2022, the PM-Cares Fund, raised during the coronavirus epidemic, had collected over Rs 130 billion and had Rs 54 billion in balance. NDTV. But the government has refused a creditable public audit of the fund because it is a charitable fund not run by the government. India Today. A charity collecting money from the public must submit to a detailed audit and the prime minister's office (PMO) administering the fund is definitely part of the government. However, even the Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea "to disclose accounts, activity and expenditure details" of the fund. TOI. Then there are the secret electoral bonds for donating to political parties. According to the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), the BJP received 57% of the Rs 91.88 billion raised by the bonds in the past six years. The Wire. Two officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Hasmukh Adhia and Tapan Ray overrode objections from the RBI and the Election Commission to the bill on electoral bonds and passed it into law. Both men were rewarded with chairmanship of public sector banks, wrote Aakar patel. There is a lot of accounting to be done and an army of people will have to answer. They will do anything to keep Mr Modi in power. However damaging. A clear and present danger.