Yogendra Yadav, a former close aide of Kejriwal, "both allegations are correct". "The BJP is guilty of vendetta, the AAP government is guilty of drama. Can they please spare the people and focus on governance?"

Certainly, the gloves are off in this growing fractious political squabbling. In the wake of the Bihar debacle, the prime minister seemed to have been reaching out to the opposition in the early days of the winter session of Parliament, listening quietly as he and his partymen were reprimanded in the debate on intolerance.

Slowly, though, that veneer seemed to wither, especially as the Congress refused to respond to the government's overtures on the GST and, in fact, ramped up its opposition on the National Herald matter. With the CBI now raiding the office ofKejriwal's close aide, the widely held view across the political class is that the BJP has only succeeded in uniting parts of the opposition that may not see eye to eye all the time.

For example West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose principal opposition is the BJP in the forthcoming elections in mid-2016, came out in support of Kejriwal's contention that the BJP was behind the raid on Kumar. Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) also supported the view that Kejriwal was the target. The Congress party, arch-enemy of AAP, also criticised the BJP's decision to raid Kumar, especially while the Parliament is in session.

Certainly the timing seems to have been all wrong. And since timing is everything in politics, the question of political vendetta is now raging across