“Is PMO, Amit Shah and J P Nadda blissfully aware of the ‘Thug ki guarantee’ in their system,” he asked at a Press conference at AICC headquarters here. He said Modi proclaims that he does not believe in ‘Parivar-vaad,’ but every fraud seems to be related to his ilk.
“Are thugs, blackmailers, bluff-masters, imposters, swindlers and scamsters ruling the roost under Modi Govt by a deliberate design? Or the so-called Supreme Leader is blissfully unaware of these fraudsters? We ask this question because, BJP-RSS which regularly proclaim probity in public life and threaten the opposition with daily ED-CBI raids, have no time to rein in their own network of fraudsters.”
Khera said how Kiran Patel from Gujarat roamed the sensitive border state of Jammu and Kashmir for five months with fake documents and IDs of the PMO and even chaired the continuous meetings with the officials and then Sanjay Rai Sherpuria, who allegedly looted Rs 350 crore, welcomed Modi at various RSS programmes and his claim to have lent Rs 25 lakh to J&K governor Manoj Sinha before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
He added to the list a whole pack of frauds and imposters thriving and breeding under the Sangh Parivar eco-system. They include one Neeraj Singh Rathod from Morbi in Gujarat who calls himself as Nadda’s personal assisstant and operates among the BJP MLAs in Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi, West Bengal and Jharkhand brokering cabinet berths to the aspiring ministers. In May 2023, he was arrested in Nagpur for taking money from three BJP MLAs in Maharashtra, promising them the ministerial berths in the Eknath Shinde-led govt.
Another Thug he named is Yash Ameen aka Viraj Shah, who proclaimed himself as nephew of Amit Shah, selling minsterships. In 2016, he was arrested for duping Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA of Rs 80,000. Another BJP MLA Yogindra Upadhyay caught him with the same modus operandi five years later.
But it did not stop here. The same self-proclaimed ‘nephew’ of Amit Shah, whose real name is Viraj Ashwin Patel, claimed that he ‘works’ at the Gujarat chief minister’s office and also introduced himself as ‘president’ of the Gujarat
International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) duped several models, offering to make them GIFT City’s brand ambassador. Some have filed police complaints. Hailing from Sargasan in Gandhinagar, his labharthis were mainly BJP MLAs in
Maharashtra, UP, Haryana and Rajasthan. He offered to “fix” ministerships at the Centre or in BJP-ruled states. A U.P police officer on record said that, “The man arrested by the Vadodara police for impersonating a CMO official is the
same person we arrested in Agra in 2020 (in a similar case)”.
The third Thug is Brajesh Rattan who regularly indulges in ‘nme-dropping’, especially of Amit Shah. Around April last year, a Mumbai-based businessman Praval Choudhary filed a police complaint alleging that Brijesh Ratan and others cheated him of Rs 2 crore. This was in lieu of getting a Rs 100 crore contract with the railways. It is important to underline that Ratan’s father is a BJP leader and the Chairman of Railway Passenger Service Committee. The association with Amit Shah’s name probably resulted in nothing happening to the complaint.
Khera also named Ankit Kumar Singh who impersonated as secretary in the PMO handling the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency as Dinesh Rao who was arrested in January 2023. Another fraudster is Vasidev Nivtuti Tayde, who posed as deputy secretary in PMO with the bogus nme of Dr Vinay Deo doing intelligence work. Last Month, the Pune crime branch arrested him. Police said he was booked in a similar offence in Dhule in 2000.
The sixth fraudster is Satyendra Prakash Chaturvedi, who was arrested from Bareilly in UP where he was posing as an IAS officer posted at the PMO. He was earlier arrested in January for impersonating as secretary to Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister.
The Congress spokesman asked three questions:
1. Isn’t there a set pattern to this thuggery? Isn’t it just a co-incidence that so
many of these frauds and blackmailers call themselves as ‘PMO Officials’ or
‘Amit Shah’s relative’ or J P Nadda’s Secretary? Why are ALL of them part of the
same RSS-BJP-Sangh Parivar ecosystem? Is that the common thread which binds
them together in such crimes?
2. If they are not RELATED to these VVIPs, then why are they continuously
repeating these offences and never been punished? How can the PMO allow
these thugs to use the office of the Hon’ble Prime Minister and tarnish it? Why is
it that they just became part of an obscure news report, and no follow-up action
is taken by the agencies?
3. Are they actually doing the dirty work of the BJP in breaking political parties
and buying MLAs and are being used as pawns or collateral damage in this
grand exercise to snatch power? If ED, CBI, SFIO etc. can probe opposition
leaders, then why can’t they probe this grand conspiratorial operation?
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