Mobilenews24x7 Bureau

It has been in the news frequently that, Enforcement Directorate(ED) is here and there and constitutionally that is a silent feature for governance although not openly pronounced.

But now something has come up, although through smiling undertones that, ED can gatecrash into one’s premises if someone refusing to say what is told to be said.

Very recently a similar such over assertive voice came from a minister at the Centre and let’s take a look.    

It was a mere yet crucial sentence during a discussion on Delhi Service Bill shortly back and that was a smiling undertone from Meenakshi Lekhi, MOS for external affairs that the opposition bench must learn to stay calm else, the ED can reach their houses.

A sentence that has many connotations like that the ruling side do not intend overturn what the SC’s Constitution Bench said in last May and secondly, Union HM Amit Shah also decided to side-step, while piloting the Bill, any reference and did not respond to Opposition MPs’ queries on questionable provisions of this bill.

It was possibly because given his brute majority in the House, for Shah, the passage of the bill was a mere formality and nothing more.

 

What is apparent that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) largely chose to field its Delhi MPs, all of whom used vitriolic language to attack Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and had no substance in their speeches about the bill. They betrayed their lack of understanding of the bill they were discussing in the House of People.

And the bomb of ED

On the contrary, Lekhi was combative and in her attempt to get the cajole the Opposition benches, she used aggression. This led to a surcharged atmosphere in the House and during one such moment, she let the cat out of the bag. “One minute, one minute, just stay calm, otherwise the ED might come to your house.”

That could be a stunner in any sense of a democratic spirit and it did.

The lone minister from Delhi, actually stated the obvious about her party’s most effective but not publicly acknowledged weapon to silence the political opponents and voices of dissent during the last nine years.

But her comment was met with laughter from her colleagues, the Presiding Officer did not intervene and senior cabinet colleagues seated in front benches chose to join the laughter.

The PM has been telling louder day by day that the entire opposition is a huge basket of corrupt people but hardly he has underscored anything in details. That is ok in politics and so did the PM.

But Lekhi making it sound thunderous with the mention of ED was a bit too loaded a statement at this juncture when ED is in news than ever before.

It is different that she later sought to deflect from to avoid criticism by passing it as a light-hearted comment only, is actually proving to be the invincible armour of the Modi…but many things could be read in between the lines.