By Biswaraj Patnaik in Puri, January 17, 2019: The Congress leaders have demanded immediate removal of the Central Vigilance Commissioner KV Chowdary, for acting as ‘a vigilant slave’ of the government, and an ‘agent’ of Rakesh Asthana, the defamed special director of the Central Bureau of Investment, who is known to enjoy the backing of the Modi-headed government.

There is evidence of the CVC having approached the CBI chief Alok Verma for giving an impressive appraisal report in favour of Asthana. Verma ignored the request and all hell broke loose over his head. The CVC released the controversial report to enable the government to oust Verma. Congress is right in saying the CVC must go for violating the Constitution and conspiring against the state. Thus, the CVC has to be shown the door and unceremoniously so.

Very interestingly, there is strange news of the prime minister of India, Modi receiving a ‘never heard of’ award. Rahul Gandhi has derisively congratulated PM Modi for the goddamn award which is so unique that it never came through a scrutiny by any Jury. No one knows why or how it came to be known as the ‘Kotler Presidential Award’! Such an award has never been given to anyone before. It is organised by an unknown Aligarh based company.

Minimum research has revealed that the legendary American marketing wizard and author Philip Kotler has nothing to do with this award. Paid news says Modi has been given an award by members of a (nondescript) entity called ‘World Marketing Summit of India’ for his uniquely excellent leadership with enviable achievements in marketing and management.

Even the hardcore leftist leader Sitaram Yechury’ jibed saying, “My personal congratulations to Narendra Modi for winning the world’s ‘first-ever, superbly confidential’ award. No one else could have won this award because no one else on the planet knows about it!” It is heard that one Tauseef Zia Siddiqui, calling himself the representative of Philip Kotler, now 87, has made it public that the super special award is a very confidential one given only to rarest of rare statesmen with exceptional knowledge and skills in marketing and management.

A statement released by the Prime Minister’s office says proudly, “The award focuses on the triple bottom-line of ‘People, Profit and Planet’. Modi is the first recipient in the solar system and it will be offered annually, hereafter, to a chosen leader of a nation, with the same skills as Modi’s.”

There is more disturbing news about the Modi administration too involving the chief security adviser Doval. Trade documents accessed by The Caravan from the United Kingdom, United States of America, Singapore and the Cayman Islands show that the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s younger son, Vivek Doval, runs a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands, an established tax haven. This hedge fund was registered merely 13 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government demonetised all existing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, in 2016.

Vivek Doval’s business is linked inextricably to businesses run by his brother Shaurya Doval, a Bharatiya Janata Party politician who heads the India Foundation, a think tank that enjoys close proximity to the Modi government. That Vivek Doval runs an offshore hedge fund based out of a tax haven is notable in light of the established public position taken by his father—in 2011, Ajit Doval authored a report that advocated a strict crackdown on tax havens and offshore entities.

Vivek Doval, a chartered financial analyst who is a citizen of the UK and resides in Singapore, is the director of the hedge fund, named GNY Asia Fund. According to July 2018 document, Don W Ebanks and Mohamed Althaf Musliam Veetil are directors as well. Ebanks is named in the Paradise Papers—a leaked database of over 13 million documents regarding offshore entities—as the director of two firms, both registered in the Cayman Islands. He was formerly employed with the Cayman Islands government, and advised its finance secretary and cabinet ministers. Mohamed Althaf is a regional director for the Lulu Group International, which operates one of the fastest growing chains of hypermarkets in West Asia.

The legal address of GNY Asia fund shows that it is under the care of Walkers Corporate Limited, a firm that finds a mention in the Paradise Papers as well as the Panama Papers, another leaked database that includes attorney-client information of millions of offshore entities. Thus is the aching facts about the NDA government headed by the saffronised Modi and Shah duo. Modi was doing fairly well in the beginning. But later, he began believing he is the greatest politician on Earth and kept messing up his own personality by his insane self-flattering blunders on a non-stop mode!

What is most amusing around this time is the number of mad trips PM Modi is making to Odisha. That shows how terribly scared the BJP party is of the invincible BJD headed by the magician chief minister Naveen Patnaik. The local BJP honchos are just a bunch of good for nothing chaps incessantly engaged in bragging about grabbing one hundred and twenty seats in 2019. They keep screeching like frightened creatures about a make believe anti-incumbency factor in Odisha, a mad claim which most media and pollsters laugh off for it is common knowledge that popular leaders from Congress and even from BJP are migrating to the BJD fold both openly and slyly. Quite a few are holding talks in hiding to only surface with the truth in good time.

Modi has come at least three times in thirty days to boast of big deeds of nation building and helping the poor. The Naveen administration hasn’t even cared a damn about what Modi has been saying. Naveen has unfailingly organised matching parallel programmes to counter the timid saffron attacks and prove that the BJP has no power to pose any threat to the BJD. Modi, it appears, is in no mood to displease or irritate Naveen as 2019 may not have any pro-saffron wave. He is able to foresee a depleted number of seats well below the magic number.

Hence a pre-poll secret understanding is certain to come in handy while claiming to form government; if at all BJP emerges as the leading party. Naveen too is not averse to BJP coming back to power yet again. He knows too well that the Congress will take another half a decade before regaining people’s trust. It’s not their turn yet.

Back to the Odisha political climate now. One fact is indisputable that Niranjan Patnaik, as state Congress president will destroy the party beyond recognition! One of the worst ever political leaders known to mankind. When very popular leaders are declaring exit from the miniscule, defunct fold, utterly baffled Niranjan says, “politicians without any ideology do abandon home parties. His own brother Saumyaranjan too had left the party with an overnight decision, only because he saw no future or good enough prospects of success or joy in the party, no matter if elder brother was at the helm.

Naba Kishore Das, the Jharauguda heavyweight with the Robin Hood style of doing good to the poor, has expressed desire to be part of the BJD as he is convinced Naveen is the best statesman of Odisha and can ensure victory for long. Besides, the Congress has slipped down to the third position as a political force in Odisha, the BJP having snatched the second position meanwhile.

Niranjan knows too well he is a weak political fellow in the eyes of the public and cannot even win in his home turf Ramachandrapur. Quite sometime ago, during the Congress regime too, his own people had driven him out of bounds for having cheated them on all fronts with false promises made before the election and no connection thereafter. The poor people of the constituency were so sore with him that they bet him up, tore his clothes and hounded him out of sight. Close local associates had said then that he sprinted like a frightened canine, tail between the legs, to safety.

All that is history. When Prasada Harichandan was displaced to accommodate Niranjan Patnaik, all good Congress leaders had felt beaten down. Prasada does not have money, but a lot of knowledge and wisdom. Niranjan has measurable money, but hardly can he differentiate between good governance and bad. The money-crazy leaders have brought him in to face even worse a defeat than expected as the state boss has no following among the masses.

Naba Das has already discarded the party as news is out already. More Naba-like leaders are on the tracks to follow suit. Niranjan will be left with a few disfunctional brains to misguide him even further.