PLOT AND BARGAIN
-Bageshwar jha
Rajendra Kumar, IAS and
former Chief Secretary, Delhi Govt. has written a long letter seeking VRS. In
the letter he has charged that at the instance of the Centre, the CBI was
pressurizing him to provide materials to implicate Arvind Kejriwal. When he
flatly refused to be a party to this nefarious plot, the agency raided his
premises both official and domestic to concoct stories to involve him in
prolonged legal battle which will not only harm him but also tarnish the image
of the Chief Minister. Though the CBI has outright called it false, the issue
is hovering in the corridors of power.
The real story is that
this plot story is carved out of a bargain between Kumar and the AAP supremo.
Kumar knows that even if he successfully fought the legal battle, by the time
such a favourable court decision came, he would have retired long back. In this
backdrop, he did not see any silver lining in his career graph. Then came the bargain.
The AAP wanted him to go public vocally against Modi and the CBI before saying
goodbye to his job. If he obliged the AAP, he would be favourably considered
for a berth in the Rajya Sabha from where he could take his battle to a larger
canvas. This offer appears to have attracted the bureaucrat. Thus by putting in
his papers, he has started unwinding his plot story.
Now one thing is sure,
Kumar is slated to be a MP/RS on AAP’s sponsorship. Will by then the public at
large be aware of the underlying truth of the plot and bargain theories?
