Mission West Bengal in the War of Perceptions, the BJP Seems to Be Unbeatably Ahead in the Race to Win West Bengal Politically
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RNI No. DELENG/2014/55799 Delhi Postal Regd. No. DL(ND)-11/6168/2018-19-20 March 2021 I Rs 50 POWER www.powercorridors.in CORRIDORS Mission West Bengal [email protected] POWER CORRIDORS CONTENTS www.powercorridors.in Editor & Chairman : Nandan Jha Consulting Editor : Parijat Tripathi Executive Editor : Satish Mishra Executive Director : Adesh Tyagi Event Head : Ankita Singh Legal Advisor : Dr. Vivek Singh Strategy Head : Amol Monga Fashion Consultant : Pooja Nagarrsheth VP Business Development: Navin Kati Assistant Editor : Prashant Bhardwaj Special Correspondent : Arvind Sharma Rajasthan Bureau Chief : Saurabh Indoria Designer : Laxman Prasad Sharma illustration : Circle Creation Executive Circulation : Vinod Kumar Patron: Dr. Ved Pratap Vaidik Chartered Accountant : Prabhat Sukhija, Santosh Kr. 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Ltd., Gole Market, New Delhi CONTENTS 08 Appointments/TRANSFER 14 Scam 28 national RP Thakur IRTS appointed ED attaches properties worth How will the country Principal Secretary- Industries Rs 65 crore in Naresh Jain case become superpower and Commerce, J&K without own language? scam Thirteen IPS transfers in 15 Delhi Police ED attaches assets worth Rs 38 DELHI riots 31.83 cr in bank fraud case A year on, wounds are still fresh PSU 09 scam Cochin Shipyard Signs MOUs 16 with DCI and Royal IHC I-T Crackdown on A-T Anurag- Holland BV Taapsee in deep trouble 10 Appointment 18 scam Athlete Hima Das appointed Gujarat Chief Secretary as DSP in Assam Police Anil Mukim gets six-month extension 42 DEFENCE TIME TO MOVE AHEAD Appointment 11 EXclusive Jag Mohan IPS posted as 20 ADG & IGP (Law & Order) & Mantena E-tendering scam: SNPO, WB Will CBI investigate the matter? Vice Admiral R Hari Kumar takes charge as Western 22 PSU sports Naval Command Chief CONCOR all set to 48 boost container output ICC’s game foiled as India enters WTC final 12 Appointment Vice Admiral Ajendra Bahadur 23 PSU takes over as ENC Chief USA’s latest policy on Kashmir Rear Admiral Sanjay Sharma Took Over as Admiral 24 Superintendent, Naval Ship Russia-Pakistan: India Repair Yard (KOCHI) marginalized 50 bollyWOOD Dignity is also necessary with ‘Saina’ was the challenge ‘I 13 EXTENSION freedom was looking for’: Parineeti MHA extends Manoj Yadav’s tenure as Haryana DGP 25 ADULTERATION: A SILENT POWER CORRIDORS 4 MARCH 2021 MURDER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NANDAN JHA Editor & Chairman facebook.com/jhnandan @Nandan_jha4 The high-stake political battle in West dividends but nothing’s over until it’s finally over. The opinion Bengal has entered its last phase and the Polls do agree that BJP occupying a total of 18 Lok Sabha seats stage is set for a massive showdown. The will be able to achieve much more than earlier in these polls. state seems to be getting unreasonable The BJP is, not surprisingly, ahead in creating the impression T attention though there are other three that it has already won the election. A section of the mainstream poll-bound states (Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam) and media too has bought into the narrative and is convinced that a Union Territory (Puducherry), during the upcoming Bengal is ready for change. Other factors working in favour of assembly elections. The four states and one Union the BJP in West Bengal are its seemingly unlimited resources, territory are scheduled to go to poll starting from high voltage campaign by the PM, union ministers and chief March 26. There seem to be numerous reasons which ministers, its sway over the media and its wooing of Bengali make this political war all the more interesting. The film industry. The latest development from West Bengal has other states are no less important but the battles in been the inclusion of Former NDA stalwart Yashwant Sinha these states are much less dramatic. into TMC. Sinha joined the party citing danger to democracy We Indians love dramas and this battle seems under the ruling BJP at the Centre. Sinha, 83, who had quit nothing short of a theatrical full of twists and turns. the BJP in 2018, and has since been consistent in questioning Moreover this is a battle of political heavyweights who the government and its policies didn’t look, satisfied at all with have proved their mettle time and again. Add to that BJP’s governance. Will that decision prove beneficial to the some star power, which makes it cynosure of our eyes. TMC? Only time will tell. New controversies spring up each day. BJP is going all While BJP hopes that the investment and hard work it has put out to win the elections and CM Mamata Banerjee is in the state pays off, the TMC feels the fighter Mamat Banerjee fighting hard to ensure she doesn’t lose her territory. puts BJP at bay in the state. Major factors like Narendra Modi- In a way, the stakes are too high at the moment. The Amit Shah winning combo, Suvendu vs Mamata Nandigram idea of a liberal, secular, plural and federal India is battle and much more will be on display in the coming days. pitted against the idea of a strong, unitary and even This is what has kept the people interested in West Bengal polls authoritarian Hindu Rashtra. Both sides seem evenly despite elections in other states too. While the coming days matched but there are few things which set them apart. would see political parties from West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil The desperation of BJP to win at all costs is there to Nadu and Puducherry slug it out to form governments; it would be seen and the other three major parties in the state, be interesting to see who comes out with flying colours during who have dominated the last two decades in the state, this epic clash in Bengal. h are feeling the heat at the moment. Being a national party with such a wide range always brings promise but BJP has got much more to offer. The Narendra Modi factor is always there; besides several top leaders joining BJP and the efforts of party workers at ground level appears to be paying (Nandan Jha) MARCH 2021 5 POWER CORRIDORS NEWS IN BRIEF Directors of Shinago Plantations Pvt Ltd. arrested in Money laundering case he Enforcement Directorate (ED) rotation of money to avail more funds on 6 March arrested two directors from the Bank without any actual Tof a Tamil Nadu-based company in business. an alleged money laundering case worth "The funds so availed by various `325 crore linked to a bank fraud case. individuals/group concerns, in the form Hittesh Patel and Suresh N Patel, directors of Letters of Credit (LC), cash credit (CC) of Shinago Plantations Pvt Ltd, were sent limits and agriculture term loans, were to 10 days ED custody by a special court transferred within the group entities on Saturday after they were placed under through circular rotation of money to arrest under sections of the Prevention of avail more funds from the bank without Money Laundering Act (PMLA), it said any actual business," the agency claimed. in a statement. The two allegedly laundered funds Investigation under PMLA revealed funds through various group accounts. to the tune of Rs325 crore by using a that the accused in collusion with the The investigation further revealed that the network of nearly 20 group entities valuers availed loans from erstwhile funds so availed by various individuals/ located across Tamil Nadu. After one Corporation Bank (Presently Union Bank group concerns in the form of Letter of day of judicial custody, the Hon’ble of India) on the basis of inflated value Credit (LC) and Cash Credit (CC) limits/ Special Court (PMLA) remanded both of the properties offered as collateral Agriculture term loans, were transferred the accused of enforcement custody for and indulged in the wilful diversion of within the group entities through circular 10 days on 5 March 2021. h Tirath Singh Rawat to be new Uttarakhand Chief Minister for the post. Sources say the decision was becoming the latest in Uttarakhand's taken with the express approval of Prime legacy of Chief Ministers exiting before Minister Narendra Modi. What sets him term. A first-timer, he was chosen by apart is that he is not identified with any Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the faction in the Uttarakhand BJP.