TIOL-DDT 2298 · Thursday, 20 February 2014 · story 4 of 7

DGCEI Notice to Bhartiya Janta Party

IF I were to be a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), I would have been aghast at the DGCEI notice to my party – no, not for demanding Service Tax on the tickets for Modi's rallies, but for mis-spelling my party's name. The DGCEI letter in three places mentions the name of the party as BHARTIYA JANTA PARTY. I have very little respect for an investigating agency that cannot spell BHARATIYA and JANATA. Calling the party JANTA is a serious insult. Surprisingly no BJP leader has protested against being called JANTA instead of Janata – well, what's in a name?