Some Ladakh-based journalists alleged that BJP leaders, including state president Ravinder Raina, had offered them bribes to 'influence outcome of elections'.
The journalists have alleged that leaders including J&K BJP president Ravinder Raina were distributing envelopes of cash at a press conference in Leh on 2 May.
In this excerpt from the book 'A Game Changer's Memoir', ex-SEBI chief G.N. Bajpai revisits the times when, he writes, the Indian media published downright inaccurate and unverified news about the market regulator
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
It appears without room for any doubt that CBI had been functioning as a corrupted organisation. This would not have been possible
if there were regular and periodic deterrent actions against those corrupt people at the helm of affairs. Since they were also indulging in corrupted practices it would have been very difficult for honest people in this agency to have survived.No wonder why high value economic crimes went undeterred and people were emboldened to carry out economic crime of any high value mindless of the law enforcing agency because either of lethargy or of willing for private profit or Under the instructions of higherups. In anycase it has been spoiled and the reputation is,at its lowest ebb.Modi has now entered the scene. We have to waitvand see because the appointees would still have deep gratitude to khangress and their favorite babus.We people all shooting without knowing the ground realities in CBI that BJPcould not deliver results
It appears without room for any doubt that CBI had been functioning as a corrupted organisation. This would not have been possible
if there were regular and periodic deterrent actions against those corrupt people at the helm of affairs. Since they were also indulging in corrupted practices it would have been very difficult for honest people in this agency to have survived.No wonder why high value economic crimes went undeterred and people were emboldened to carry out economic crime of any high value mindless of the law enforcing agency because either of lethargy or of willing for private profit or Under the instructions of higherups. In anycase it has been spoiled and the reputation is,at its lowest ebb.Modi has now entered the scene. We have to waitvand see because the appointees would still have deep gratitude to khangress and their favorite babus.We people all shooting without knowing the ground realities in CBI that BJPcould not deliver results
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