INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
HYDERABAD: Nine leaders of eight political parties on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the BJP government at the centre
of misusing the seat of the Governor and central agencies to target the opposition parties and their leaders, which has transitioned the
country from being a democracy to an autocracy.The leaders alleged that the timings of the lodging of cases or arrests of the opposition
were the signatories of the letter included BRS president and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, JKNC chief Farooq Abdullah, AITC
chief Mamata Banerjee, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann,
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.However, there was no representation from Congress, JDS, JD (U), CPU,
CPM in the letter.Referring to the arrest of Manish Sisodia, the opposition leaders said the allegations against him are baseless and smack
of a political conspiracy
His arrest has enraged people of the country
His arrest will be cited worldwide as an example of a political witch-hunt and further confirm what the world was only suspecting that
government of softening the investigation against the opposition leaders who are being probed on different cases after they joined the
BJP.Citing the example of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who was formerly a Congress leader who joined the BJP in 2015, the letter
BJP.Of the total number of key politicians booked, arrested, raided, or interrogated by the investigation agencies under the BJP government
since 2014, the maximum belongs to the opposition
joined the BJP ahead of the assembly polls in the state
There are many such examples
number of raids conducted, cases registered, and arrests of opposition leaders
Be it Anil Deshmukh (NCP), Lalu Prasad Yadav (Rashtriya Janata Dal), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena), Azam Khan (Samajwadi Party), Nawab Malik
(NCP), Abhishek Banerjee (TMC), central agencies have often sparked suspicion that they were working as extended wings of the ruling
dispensation at the Centre
In many such cases, the timings of the cases lodged or arrests made have coincided with elections making it abundantly clear that they were
the constitutional provisions and frequently hindering the governance of the state
They are wilfully undermining democratically elected state governments and choosing instead to obstruct governance as per their whims and
Governors have become the face of the widening rift between the Centre and states run by the non-BJP governments and threaten the spirit of
cooperative federalism, which the states continue to nurture in spite of a lack of expression by the Centre
