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election 2018
General elections 2019
Modi factor writ large
across country during
first phase of polls,
says Arun Jaitley
ers, entails the payments made to members of the tack at Balakot. The ‘caravan’ of falsehood was ready
preferred family of the Congress Party. for a ‘Rahul Bailout’.
A search on another Congress leader at multiple The forged and fabricated photocopies manu-
places made significant revelations. Media reports factured and provided by the Congress Party were
indicate that his informal accounts dealing with cash passed off as BSY’s diary. A channel which claims to
were discovered. During the search, as per CBDT have earned the ‘trust with viewers’ endorsed the
statement, photocopies of loose sheets were provided falsehood. The newspaper which earned credibility
by the Congress leader claiming this to be BSY’s diary. with Bofors and lost it with Rafale, headlined the for-
The authorities, as per the statement of the CBDT, geries. Earlier it had sliced and half printed a Rafale
go to the root of the matter. BSY played it fair and document.
straight. He offered his handwriting and signatures Falsehood and forgeries can never influence a poll.
to the authorities for verification. The Congress leader Just as voters are wiser than politicians, they are also
started distancing himself from the documents. He wiser than those who ride on the ‘caravan’ of false-
would not authenticate nor confirm its veracity and hood and forgeries.
not part with the original. The documents appear to Arun Jaitley questioned, “Is the Congress Party
be a self-serving forgery of the Congress Party and its Now Paying the Cost for its Dynastic Character?”
leader. He said that had consistently held the view that
Faced with odds on a daily basis, the Congress Party dynasties owning political parties is an unfortunate
needed to distract from the self-goal created by Sam phenomenon which has accelerated in the last three
Pitroda. He had questioned the Air Force’s targeted at- decades. The Congress was the original creator of
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