Political heat between the BJP and the opposition escalates

The BJP's latest face-offs with the Congress and the AAP seem to have only added to the Modi government's problems and succeeded in uniting the opposition parties.

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Jyoti Malhotra

December 16, 2015

ISSUE DATE: December 28, 2015

UPDATED: December 18, 2015 14:42 IST

Arvind Kejriwal, Narendra Modi. Photo: Yasbant Negi

As the winter session of Parliament winds down without passing the much-vaunted GST Bill or any other serious legislation, including the one against corruption, the political heat between the ruling BJP and the opposition has escalated so much that the camaraderie of the early days has been totally forgotten.

In the wake of the fallout over the National Herald case between the BJP and the Congress, in which Congress leaders Rahul and Sonia Gandhi are crying vendettais watertight and one of corruption. According to a furious Kejriwal, the prime minister is a "coward and a psychopath", and he alleges that the CBI took the orders to raid from Modi. Moreover, he added, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is guilty of several misdemeanours in the running of the Delhi District Cricket Association where he wields considerable informal power, that files regarding those misdemeanours are missing and about which he was going to order a commission of inquiry. According to some accounts, the Delhi chief minister doesn't have the power to order such an investigation. According to Jaitley, the accusations will be treated with the contempt they deserve, and that the CBI is free and independent to do the job it is supposed to do.

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