{"id":221,"date":"2019-04-05T09:55:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kamalsandesh.org\/blogs\/?p=221"},"modified":"2019-04-20T10:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T10:22:49","slug":"rg-ap-fam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamalsandesh.org\/blogs\/rg-ap-fam\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are \u2018RG\u2019, \u2018AP\u2019 and \u2018FAM\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arun Jaitlley<\/strong><\/p>\n

R<\/strong>ahul Gandhi talks on several subjects with which he does not even have a nodding acquaintance.\u00a0 He makes wild and unsubstantiated allegations against all and sundry.\u00a0 The only subject he refused to speak about or respond is the one on which he alone knows the truth \u2013 his own accounts.<\/p>\n

When reports have indicated that his own personal \u2018capital creation\u2019 programme was on the strength of \u2018Sweetheart Deals\u2019 with \u2018fly-by-night operators\u2019, he imposed censorship on himself and also on otherwise an outspoken Media Cell of the Congress Party.<\/p>\n

My conclusion: When no reply or explanation is given for such a probity related issue, the country is entitled to assume that no reply or explanation could ever have been given.\u00a0 Silence in this case speaks more than any fake explanation.<\/p>\n

The AugustaWestland chargesheet disclosures<\/strong><\/p>\n

The chargesheet in the AugustaWestland case has clearly mentioned that in the documents which were recovered by the Swiss Police from the house of the mother of Guido Haschke in Lugano, Switzerland, carried a reference in the English alphabets which identifies the name of certain political leaders\/ entities\u00a0 who had influence with the UPA Government.\u00a0 It is relevant that when the Chairman and CEO of AugustaWestland was arrested in February, 2013 in Italy the CBI had registered the initial PE in 2013 itself.\u00a0 It is only after the Government of India succeeded in getting Christian James Michel on 4th December, 2018 and Rajiv Saxena on 30th January, 2019 that investigations made a significant headway.\u00a0 The chargesheet is based on oral and documentary evidence.\u00a0 To whom is the reference of \u2018RG\u2019, \u2018AP\u2019 and \u2018FAM\u2019 being made?\u00a0 Investigators have quoted in the chargesheet the statements of the concerned persons.\u00a0 The documents recovered in Italy corroborate with the oral and documentary evidence collected in India.<\/p>\n

Diary as evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is an erroneous belief among Indian politicians that a diary, as in the Jain Hawala Case, is never admissible as an evidence.\u00a0 A diary constitutes an admission in writing and is admissible against the maker of that admission.\u00a0 It is admissible against the other co-conspirators if it is made when the conspiracy was still being executed and there is other evidence that corroborates the contents of the diary.\u00a0 That is the law laid down by the Privy Council in \u2018Mirza Akbar\u2019s\u2019 case and has held grounds throughout.\u00a0 In the Jain\u2019s case, there was no corroboration of the Diary.\u00a0 This legal argument is, however, relevant for the purposes of the legal case.<\/p>\n

Probity debate<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arguments of probity in the public space demand more answers.\u00a0 Are \u2018RG\u2019, \u2018AP\u2019 and \u2018FAM\u2019 fictional characters or were they in a position to influence the deal?\u00a0 How come every time there is a controversial defence deal and evidence is collected, names close to the Congress Party\u2019s first family start appearing?<\/p>\n

When the alphabet \u2018Q\u2019 appeared in Martin Ardbo\u2019s diary in the Bofors Case with a comment that \u2018Q\u2019 must be protected at all cost, the Party was in denial even then.\u00a0 It is only when the Swiss authorities in 1993 disclosed the names of one of the beneficiaries of the kickbacks of Bofors being paid as Ottavio Quattrocchi, the Narasimha Rao Government facilitated his escape from India in less than 24 hours.\u00a0 This did not wash away the ghost of \u2018Q\u2019 which had scarred the face of the Congress Party nor will \u2018RG\u2019, \u2018AP\u2019 and \u2018FAM\u2019.<\/p>\n

Public neither forgets nor forgives the corrupt.\u00a0 Silence is never an answer to documentary evidence of corruption.<\/p>\n

The Right to Silence is available to an accused, not to a Prime Ministerial aspirant.<\/p>\n

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