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Timewarp: MVA's hypocenter rocked by past, present, and future

By MK Shukla & Amya Roy- 10 Apr 2021
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New Delhi (10.04.2021): The MVA government, which is seen troubled by the accelerated descent of its reputation in the wake of ex-Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh revelations about Hafta collections by ex-Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, was constrained on Friday to give the additional charge of state DGP to seniormost IPS officer Sanjay Pandey in a bid to halt a further escalatory slide in its image.
Till the other day, Pandey had always been sidelined and was on the persona non grata list of the state government.
Not stopping at placing Pandey at the helm of state police, the state government has also ordered him to conduct an inquiry into how “Waze was made the CIU chief against the advice of then joint commissioner of police (Crime) and was given important cases. He was asked to report to the commissioner. Waze was later arrested in the Ambani terror scare case. Did Singh, under whose control and supervision these officers worked, slip up in his duty?”
Besides this substantial issue, the order is seen loaded with too many flippant issues in a clear move to get the ex-Mumbai Commissioner on his backfoot. Even if they may not sustain themselves in any court of law, it's always politically convenient to try tarnishing the image of one's opponent.  
The inquiry order, issued on April 01, 2021, but leaked today on April 10, is seen to reflect the usual below-cunning tactics of politicians to play honest officers against 'smart' ones when the latter ambush them for their own convenience.
From all reckonings, the MVA administration's calculation may be focused on exploiting Pandey for being what he is (we at Indianmandarins once called him a 'Bidrohi Bhrigu' as described by great Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in his eponymous poem), and focus his undoubted skill to dig out dirt which could then be exploited for ordering statutory departmental inquiry before suspending Singh.
Whether or not the move may achieve the desired political objective of the MVA government remains a moot point.
 However, the march of events since March 20, 2021 point to the MVA government having been caught in a time warp engulfed from the temporal pincer movement of the past, present, and future converging on the hypocenter of the MVA mentor and patron, Sharad Pawar.
The pincers' nipper from the past is ex-Commissioner of State Intelligence Rashmi Shukla report on commercialization of the police transfer and posting regime, from the present is the head-on bull's charge by Parambir Singh and the HC and the SC unambiguous stand that charges leveled by Singh are too serious to be ignored, and the future nipper is unleashed by the NIA and the CBI as they move back in time to the hypocenter to get at the truth of Hafta collections in Mumbai and in the whole state.
By MK Shukla & Amya Roy)

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