Is Nirav Modi a mere Cat’s Paw?

Whether the helpless Indians should pity Nirav Modi or curse him? Should the Indians blame congress or BJP for the above colossal loss of public money? How can we blame only Nirav Modi, Congress and BJP by excluding all those officials, auditors and other watchdogs like RBI? All the above clearly proves one thing for sure, that whether BJP or Congress, whether it is Moun Mohan Singh or vocal Modi, India shall remain the same. It is like changing the colour of the wall can only make the house ‘look’ different.

We the poor Indians have to live in the same gutter, whether you call it NEW INDIA, Nehru’s India or Congress mukt India or Rahul's India.

It looks like Indian politics is like a football game. People may assume that BJP and Congress are two opponent teams but in reality, they belong to the same team and the opponent team of BJP and Congress is the poor people of India. Both these parties look like taking different positions on the ground like the left or right winger, striker, midfielder, defender etc., to put goal against people of India.

Unfortunately, the people of India without knowing the intelligent agreement between Congress and BJP in the football match keep receiving goals and ironically clapping for either of the parties.

When ‘WE’ the Indians are going to change?

The question of change also must lead to better present than what it is now. But today which political party is better than Congress and BJP? All of them are incubated in the same nest by the same mother bird called corruption. The only difference between them is that small colour change in plumage.

Whistleblowers have alerted the system about the scam both to UPA as well as to NDA government. Both of BJP government and Congress government have left the forewarnings made by the whistleblowers unattended may be to facilitate the process of the scam to complete and the scamsters escape from India unhurt.

If we connect different scenes and episodes, all of them would make the Indians assume that whether Nirav Modi was the real culprit or was he a mere Cat’s paw?

Not even the cinema director of some fictitious, horror movies would dare to imagine that the single individual - Nirav Modi can loot our banks so easily without the support of the several administrative and political establishments including the tactical support of several watchdogs?

Then the natural question would be why all of them have to pledge their support liberally to Nirav Modi? Without any glittering profit, why should people support someone to loot the system?

Perhaps it would have started as a small-scale operation where the profits would have been shared among small groups of people. When they want to scale up their business, they would have presented the business model to the top braces and from them to the political boss and finally, all of them would have agreed to profit from the public exchequer where the real alleged kingpin would have been made as Cat’s Paw.

Who knows, after entering into the dragons’ mouth, Nirav Modi also would have realized that he has fewer options left to escape than continue playing the role of Cat’s Paw for others.

If Modiji is real, original and authentic to his claimed stature that he is against corruption, he must play a different football game and not partnering with Congress. Unless those involved in the scam are severely and brutally punished, people of India are not going to believe Modiji.

It is not about which political leader is better? People of India should not reduce the 2019 election to be an election between dynast Rahul Gandhi versus Modiji. Instead, people must see who has acted firmly against corruptions and scams and who has brought all the culprits to book, how much looted money has been confiscated, converted and injected back into our economy.

As on date, it looks like both the Congress and BJP are simply the two sides of the same coin and unfortunately the other parties form the circumference of the same coin.

What option is left for the common man in India?

The following options can be tried out. Cry till you feel you cannot cry anymore, beat and abuse the self for why you were born in India, look for some foreign counties if you can to migrate and nothing is possible, then try your luck in a spiritual path, become a spiritual guru certainly some political party may require your service. Be a Roman in Rome is the only option left to the people of India

Dr S Ranganathan