P Chidambaram: India's former finance and home minister arrested

[Gabbar Singh]

A politically motivated witch-hunt or a corrupt politician about to get his comeuppance?

Former Indian finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has been arrested on charges of corruption and money laundering.
He is being investigated over allegations that he cleared foreign investments in exchange for bribes while he was finance minister.

His lawyer told the court that the Bharatiya Janta Party-led government is carrying on a "politically-motivated vendetta" against Mr Chidambaram and his son, Karti, who is also implicated in the case.
Mr Chidambaram is accused of clearing foreign direct investment worth tens of millions of dollars to the INX Group in 2007 when he was finance minister. Karti Chidambaram allegedly received kickbacks from INX at the time that the investment was cleared by the finance ministry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-49421255

 

[Pakistanian]

Democracy under attack in india

 

[MP2011]

A politically motivated witch-hunt or a corrupt politician about to get his comeuppance?

The former, that is if you trust what is written here,

https://theprint.in/opinion/7-politicians-with-corruption-charges-cbi-and-ed-wont-raid/280173/

 

[MenInG]

Well he has a case to answer so the law has taken its course.

 

[JaDed]

Lot of memes on this, in all honesty Home ministry under Chidambaram was actually very good, his son is worthless but Chidambaram was ambitious eventhough corrupt as a finance minister.

Again the dilemma Incompetence+communal vs corrupt but competent.

 

[CricketCartoons]

A politically motivated witch-hunt or a corrupt politician about to get his comeuppance?

It is both. He is not only corrupt, but there are other scandals which are not known to the public yet. BJP is also pursuing vendetta.

 

[pillionrider]

Well the case had been built during the previous BJP term but proceedings against him were scuttled by a prominent BJP minister. This is a fact lot of people know, but taking names is probably against the rules here.

 

[rhony]

Well the case had been built during the previous BJP term but proceedings against him were scuttled by a prominent BJP minister. This is a fact lot of people know, but taking names is probably against the rules here.

Not against the rules. Which BJP leader protected Chidambaram? I thought he was saved so they don't face backlash in South during the elections

 

[pillionrider]

Not against the rules. Which BJP leader protected Chidambaram? I thought he was saved so they don't face backlash in South during the elections

Jaitley.

 

[rhony]

Jaitley.

I see. One economist looking out for another.

 

[JaDed]

I see. One economist looking out for another.

One lawyer looking out for another.. they both are lawyers of the some of the most corrupt corporations and politicians.

 

[rhony]

One lawyer looking out for another.. they both are lawyers of the some of the most corrupt corporations and politicians.

I see. That makes more sense. I was reading about it and it's the same Tamil party that was involved in a bunch of other scams like 2G

 

[Gabbar Singh]

He gets bail.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Supreme Court has granted bail to former Union minister P. Chidambaram in the INX Media case.<br><br>The bail is conditional on him providing a personal bond of Rs. 1 lakh and the assurance that he will not leave the country. <br><br> <a href="https://t.co/IzUnmnMRpe">https://t.co/IzUnmnMRpe</a></p>— The Wire (@thewire_in) <a href="https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1186522553688322048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Congress MP and their Lok Sabha leader Adhir Chowdhury comments on this.



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Enlargement of <a href="https://twitter.com/PChidambaram_IN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PChidambaram_IN</a> ji has eloquently proved that at the end of the day truth prevails upon, he is iŕresistible</p>— Adhir Chowdhury (@adhirrcinc) <a href="https://twitter.com/adhirrcinc/status/1186576787645452289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[BaankeJi]

These kafirs don't understand the importance of halal money. They are interested in getting quick money or haram money. Now they are facing consequences.