Comment by naresh_negi_kr | Hacker News Reader

Comment by naresh_negi_kr | Hacker News Reader

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> Karthik: Right. Maybe you can give some other examples in the world. But he was celebrated when he was administering the occupation of Kashmir. But the moment he criticized the BJPs occupation of Kashmir, the moment he criticized it as reducing Kashmir to a “vassal state”, he’s been in prison. > NC: In prison? > Karthik: Yes, in prison, without charges.

This news article (https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/inx-med...) and several others seem to indicate that the Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a charge-sheet and that Chidambaram is out on bail right now. The initial First Information/Incident Report was filed way back in May 2017.

Chidambaram and his entire family are a bunch of amoral kleptocrats. He laid the roots of the current Indian security state before Modi was elected. He is now being prosecuted for arm twisting and even blackmailing corporates into giving him money, shares etc. If there were any justice in this world, that man would die in a jail cell along with his son. Now your comment is implying that he is some persecuted liberal rights activist. This is either pretty clueless or a malicious attempt to sway opinions of people, who being outsiders, know nothing.

Well, the current govt introduced black box, unlimited size, electoral bonds.

So pretty much anyone can spend billions to buy a bond, and then have it anonymously sent to their party of choice.

The party which has been spending the past several years building a rock solid link to corporate India is the BJP.

They're earnings the last year was greater than the other top 3 parties combined, if not top 4. Think it was nearly 400% growth.

For Chidambaram and his ilk, it seems his greatest fault was not thinking big enough.

I do agree that they are no saints. Its just the scale at which the BJP functions is so many step function increments higher, that its laughable to compare the two.

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