Firstly, let me
suggest you to watch this video, where Arvind Kejriwal is
being interviewed by Rahul Kanwal, the Executive Director of the
Headlines Today.
I really wonder
why politicians, the media and so called 'intellectuals' put the complete onus
on a person who dares to put out the grief of the public, which of course is in
the interest of the nation, to back all that he puts forth with full proof! Are
these people forgetting what a whistle blower really is? Are they forgetting
that collection of evidence and making a charge foolproof is the duty of the
police, the CBI and such similar institutions?
One can't expect
the whistle blowers to do this all, always. In some cases collection of proofs
and evidences may be an easy task for the whistle blower. In some cases it may
be difficult, but not impossible. In some cases it may be impossible for him to
do this, given the complexity of the issue. In such cases he may need the help
of many people or even the government.
Also, every
whistle blower may have different agendas. Some may be interested in just
revealing something so as to ensure that the people around are aware of it.
Some may want the revealed information/problem to be solved at the earliest but
he may not be able to do the latter, all by his own. Some may reveal and also
have good established contacts where he can manage to solve the problem to a
great extent. There may be some with malicious intents too. All these are
up to them and it is left for us to decide whether we should pay heed to them r
not.
Let me now be
specific. Why are the media channels, in the case of Kejrileaks, busy only in
trying to know the authenticity of the charges made by Kejriwal? Why are they
very conveniently ignoring the larger issues?
Kejrileaks 4.0
talked about how easy it was to open an account in Swiss banks in general and
HSBC in specific, the government's inaction, double standards adopted by
the government in approach towards different people and largely an
acute systemic failure.
Kejriwal clearly
says that he got some of the names given in the list of 700 people who are
having bank accounts in Geneva branch of the HSBC bank, from a senior person in
the Congress party. He also admits that it is impossible for him to gather more
evidence to substantiate the points he make, given the fact that the black
money issue is not a simple one. But, the media persists in only knowing the
authenticity of this and nothing else. Let me point out that when this list of
700 people came to the GOI, Mukesh Ambani wrote to Pranab Mukherjee, the then
Finance minister stating that he is ready to pay the taxes to 'buy peace'.
Doesn't this indicate that there was something wrong that had been done?
The government
denied revealing the names in the list in the Parliament and to us, the aam
admi of the nation. The government's excuse was that revealing these
names would create havoc in the country. As soon as the list came to the
government, Mukesh Ambani writes to it. How did he get to know that his name
had appeared in the list? Obviously someone in the government told him this.
Not just him, but also the HSBC bank because as soon as this was known, HSBC
publicly apologized Ambani and this did come in the news then. Doesn't this
clearly show preferential treatment given to Ambani family by our government to
save them? Doesn't this expose the double standard of the government where on
one side it says that it will not reveal the names, but on the other it helps the
people it needs by giving them the details?
Three people's,
whose names had appeared in the list of 700, properties and houses were raided
by the income tax departments and their statements were recorded in
2011. These statements categorically stated that HSBC was involved in money
laundering and acted as 'hawala' agents. Why hasn't the government still
arrested the HSBC authorities yet?
The United Nations
of America enacted the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, under which U.S. taxpayers with specified foreign
financial assets that exceed certain thresholds must report those to
the government and also mandates the foreign banks to report to the government
information about accounts held by U.S. citizens and about any firms in which
U.S. citizens hold substantial stakes. Why doesn't our government enact such
laws? Lack of political consensus, an excuse the government has to all the
issues it faces.
The
government is clearly playing a dirty game with the aam admi. The level of
one's safety and sustainability in this dirty game is determined by his wealth.
It takes a lot of courage to stand up against this. Are you ready?
Jai
Hind!
