[Reader-list] The VHP, Luxury Cars and Identical License Plates

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

Dear All,

Here is an interesting story on NDTV on the assets of a Hindutva  
leader in Rajasthan. Enjoy, and please do forward, especially to  
every Hindu Hriday Samrat  (Emperor of the Hindu Heart) of your  
acquaintance.

I love the detail about seven luxury cars with the same license  
plate. Not to speak of 23 crores worth of unaccounted income and  
assets  and jewellery worth 57 lakhs. Why stash your black money in  
far away Swiss banks as the 'congrssis' are alleged to have done,  
when you are with the BJP or the VHP, you can do it closer to home,  
in Rangila (colourful) Rajasthan.

Clearly Shri Damodar Modi (the eminence in question) took the 'Artha'  
part of the four Hindu 'pursharthas' (goals of existence)  - Dharma  
(righteousness), Artha (wealth), Kama (desire) and Moksha  
(liberation) very seriously.

  It only adds another rich, small but not insignificant detail into  
the unravelling saga of the auto-destruction of the Hindu right in  
India. With the BJP in disarray and the VHP mired in Hawala (money  
laundering and trafficking), the next thing I would reallly love to  
see is some sordid details (preferably videotaped) of yet another  
Sangha pracharak's (RSS functionary) peccadiloes, preferably from the  
hriday (heart) of Hindutva, in Nagpur. What we really need now is a  
hidden camera wearing loose khaki shorts.

best,

Shuddha

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Rs 23 cr, 7 cars seized from VHP leader in Jaipur

http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/ 
rs_10_cr_15_cars_seized_from_jaipur_broker.php

Even for a successful broker, Damodar Modi has a remarkable list of  
assets. Jewellery worth Rs 57 lakhs, four houses in Jaipur, seven  
luxury cars, all with the same license plate. Modi is also a senior  
leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad or VHP in Rasjasthan.

Through the day, VHP workers visited Modi's house to lend their  
support. They offer the theory that the income tax raids on Modi are  
a political conspiracy.

One says, "This is just a bad phase but it's also political. Since he  
has links with the BJP, and Rajasthan has a Congress government now,  
that's why these raids have happened."

Modi apparently liked spreading his wealth around. Mainly among his  
many selves. He had lockers in different names. "He has now admitted  
that he has nearly Rs 23 crore of unaccounted income and assets,"  
confirms Sunil Verma, Income Tax Commissioner, Rajasthan.

Tax officials are now studying three diaries, maintained by Modi, for  
information on Hawala transactions.

This is the highest seizure ever in Rajasthan...and points to the  
growing nexus...between business, politics and black money... that's  
raised a parallel economy in the country.


Shuddhabrata Sengupta
The Sarai Programme at CSDS
Raqs Media Collective
shuddha at sarai.net
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