Creates a chronology of events involving Arun Jaitley that points to a probable implosion within the BJP.

1. Le Affaire Jaitley-Kejri-DDCA-Rajinder Kumar has interesting contours. I put together just
twenty from my bald pate.
1. Not a single BJP CM has come out in Mr. Jaitley’s favour, much like Rajnath Singh, Sushma
Swaraj, Uma Bharati, etc. Why their silence?
2. Second, no other opposition party, save AAP & Congis have uttered a monosyllable in Mr.
Jaitley’s favour, indeed opted to wait and watch. Why their silence?
3. Only known Jaitley acolytes accompanied him to the Patiala House courts late last week for
filing his defamation case against the AAP, no senior Minister was present.
4. Kirti Azad was suspended on grounds that were ambiguous enough to put a usually grossly
incompetent but vengeful top babu to shame, apparently without the modicum of a show causes
notice.
5. The PM intriguingly quotes Advani’s implication in the hawala case to Mr. Jaitley’s.
Coincidence or a kid glove suggestion to quit, a la Advani?
6. Mr. KPS Gill comes out openly against hiring Mr. Jaitley’s lawyer daughter for golden
remuneration. Sports bodies sure make strange bedfellows don’t they?
7. Mr. Jaitley says he was just an honorary President of DDCA and knew nothing of the
misdemeanours of DDCA office bearers but remains silent on defending specifics brought out in
the SFIO report even as he chaired Board meetings of DDCA that took key investment decisions.
Then isn’t he responsible for the misdemeanours of his Board as per the Companies Act, 2013?
Or is it the that he quit DDCA in 2013 when the Companies Act, 2013 was promulgated,
imposed huge punishment on company office bearers, including honorary ones, for malfeasance,
if detected?
8. DDCA’s cost escalation on its new cricket stadium with almost corresponding increase in Mr.
Jaitley’s personal assets hit the headlines even he has not been a practising lawyer for 15-20
years now. Is this coincidence alone?
9. A few months ago, CARAVAN magazine carried a 12-15 page story on Mr. Jaitley’s alleged
manipulations that cast doubts on his even being nominated a senior advocate. Why has this
article not met with the same response as the one against Kejri?
10. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs imposes a compounding fee for violations pointed out in
the SFIO’s report of a paltry Rs. 1.33 lakh each on three office bearers of DDCA whereas
Subhash Aggarwal (in a huge RTI) claimed that the fine ought to have been at least Rs. 50 lakhs
per head for each of the 27 office bearers, including Mr. Jaitley. This Ministry not only failed to
cause an independent audit of DDCA as recommended by the SFIO but its ROC even failed to
detect and report a large number of violations of the Companies Act, 2013, including non-

2. submission of annual accounts of that body. Was this because the same Minster headed both
Finance and Corporate Affairs and ensured that his acolyte was the state minister in the latter?
11. BJP’s Margdarshak Mandal is reported to have castigated Mr. Jaitley and called for an
investigation today. Do the venerable old men who built the party matter any longer? But can
they be ignored either?
12. The nature of the private complaints filed by Kejri and Jaitley make sure that each one lands
the other in the dock. Revelations will follow, won’t they?
13. The trajectory followed by the CBI and Mr. Jaitley are almost identical. Kejri says the CBI
has not been able to get anything worthwhile against Rajinder Kumar. The CBI seems to support
him today saying that they have come across some audio files on Kumar’s e-mail accounts that
MAY support their case against this officer. CBI also now contradicts itself that Kumar was not
willing to provide his e-mail password and says Kumar gave it to them in the first hearing itself!
14. Why was Kumar’s office raided by the CBI instead of the depts. that he served in the past?
After all files are always in the custody of a menial assistant in the dept., not by the PS, least of
all when he is PS to the CM, a coordinating agency through whom depts. route their files, viz. a
state-level Pr. Secy. to PM.
15. Why did it need a diktat from the CBI court to give attested copies of documents seized raids
on Kumar’s office? What is the integrity of such documents that the CBI will return when they
have not been jointly authenticated by the CBI and the office to which the originals belonged.
Why should GNCTD even accept these documents solely certified by the CBI? What is the
integrity of such documents considering the CBI is a GoI agency?
16. Over the last several months the media has been rife with reports of highhandedness and
ignoring of most Minsters by the PM. Moreover, the overreach of PMO with senior civil servants
over the heads of their ministers has also been reported and documented. Mr. Jaitley has been
part and parcel of almost all initiatives to the exclusion of other Ministers. Would the wretched
of the earth make common cause to create an opposition centred on one minister’s perceived
hijack of an entire system?
17. Mr. Jaitley has filed for criminal and civil defamation against AAP leaders. In turn, AAP has
constituted a Commission of Inquiry against Mr. Jaitley. If Kejri is to be grilled by Mr. Jaitley’s
lawyers, Mr. Jaitley himself would be grilled by Gopal Subramaniam, Ram Jethmalani, etc. to
answer criminal charges. How much state sleaze of patronage will surface?
18. Media reports suggest that RSS and BJP cadre members in the field have to face tough
questions from the aam aadmi as to why they were in dire economic straits when they had voted
BJP for progress and prosperity. The RSS views both the PM and his FM as principal culprits for
such unanswerable assaults. Mr. Amit Shah’s move to place some 4 lakh and odd BJP

3. pracharaks as replacement for RSS pracharaks has not gone down well with the RSS. In totality,
Messrs. Modi, Shah and Jaitley are no great favourites in Nagpur. How will the GoI reckon with
RSS hostility?
19. Corporate India does not view Mr. Jaitley favourably for a bevy of reasons. Budget sops are
evidently half-way ‘reform’. Raghuram Rajan’s anti-NPA drive too has not gone down well with
many, particularly the infrastructure group of companies that have been traditional funders of the
BJP. Mr. Jaitley’s cuts of lucrative development fund transfers to states have not gone down well
even with BJP CMs. There is also no transparency of utilization of proceeds from sales of
spectrum, coal mines and divestment in CPSUs, USD 3 billion windfall in imports of POL not
matched by declining food inflation, etc. that does not make India an attractive investment
destination and much more.
20. Mr. Jaitley owes his meteoric rise, even after a humiliating electoral defeat in Amritsar to the
Congress, to PM Modi whom he has assiduously cultivated for the last 15-20 years. In fact, he
has emerged as the PM’s Man Friday. Mr. Jaitley has seemingly shied away from Lok Sabha
elections, preferring the safer Rajya Sabha route. This is in stark contrast to most BJP MPs that
have won their seats on their individual merit. Is it unfair to MPs that media reports of their
being completely ignored are pointers to something more sinister, but logical?
I have simply put together several seemingly related events in the last few months to point to the
fact that le affaire Jaitley may be the first signs of implosion within the BJP with helping hands
being extended by the Opposition and many within the BJP itself. I leave readers to add their
opinions without portraying me as a Congi, AAPtard, saffron sanghi, etc. Incidentally, I voted
for the first time in my life 2-3 years ago, 35-38 years after I came of voting age, that too for a
municipal election.