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` 910,603,234,300,000 IS WHAT THE NATION HAS REPORTEDLY LOST TO SCAMS, REVEALS THE SHIV SENA'S RECENTLY RELEASED SCAMS BOOKLET By Prashant Hamine
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he Shiv Sena has brought out a 44-page booklet labelled 'Ghotalebaj' on what it calls a list of scams committed by the ruling Congress-NCP regime in the state over the last 15 years. The booklet claimed to be the brainchild of Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray lists 57 scams of varying amounts between 2010 to 2013. Ironically enough, this booklet was released at a time when the Special ACB Court convicted
Top: The booklet. Above: The page denouncing Dr. Vijaykumar Gavit, whose daughter is now member of Sena’s alliance partner, the BJP. the Sena's sitting MLA Ba- portionate assets case. Furbanrao Gholap in the dispro- thermore, the booklet lists what it calls a scam committed by ex-NCP minister Dr. Vijaykumar Gavit, whose daughter Dr. Heena Vikas Sabnis Gavit is now contesting on a BJP ticket from Nandurbar (ST) Lok Sabha constituency. The booklet was released just when the elections for the 2014 Lok Sabha were announced. The Sena was forced to replace Gholap's candidature from Shirdi (SC) Lok Sabha constituency with former MLA Sadashiv Lokhande. If that was not embarrassment enough, the booklet on scams, on page 28, lists what it calls a Rs.120 crore scam of May 2013 alAmazing! Any tainted legedly indulged in by surface can be immediately Dr. Vijaykumar Gavit. The booklet states that cleaned up with this Dr. Vijaykumar, who very powerful detergent. was Minister for Med-
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ical Education, had through the Sanjay Gandhi Niradhar Yojana, indulged in a scam of purchasing medical equipment for government hospitals. Between 2008 and 2011, medical equipment worth Rs.300 crore alone was purchased for the Grant Medical College and Hospital. The booklet however, does not explain how those purchases can be quantified as a scam. The back-cover of the booklet interestingly carries a caricature of two raging bulls tagged as Nationalist Congress Party and another as Congress with a man named Shiv Sena rescuing a boy labelled as “interest of Marathi man”, with a punch line “who will safeguard your interests?... Of course Shiv Sena!” In its foreword, Thackeray appeals to the voters to oust the Congress-NCP led state government that has looted the state for the last 15 years since 1999. The list of scams includes the 2011 scams of Adarsh, fake stamp scam, PF scam, Kripashankar Singh's scam of 2012, the Rs.70,000 crore Irrigation scam and others. The booklet also contains a list of 40 scams committed by the Congress during its rule at the Centre since 1948. The first scam of Rs.80 lakh in 1948 was the Jeep purchase scam, followed by the Rs.50 lakh BHU Fund scam in 1956, the Rs.1.20 crore Mundhra scandal of 1957, the Rs.22 crore Teja loan scam of 1960, the Rs.2.2 crore Crude Oil scam of 1976, the Rs.65 crore Bofors scam of 1987, the Rs.5,000 crore Securities scam of 1992, the Rs.18,978 crore Submarine scam of 2005 and the latest 2010 Commonwealth Games scam worth Rs.40,000 crore. The Sena claims that the sum total of all the 40 scams committed by the Congress since 1948 amounts to nine hundred ten trillion, six hundred three billion, two hundred thirty-four million, three hundred thousand rupees...
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