Mulayam Singh Yadav – tryst with Income Tax

By Vijay Kumar

While every body talks in hushed tones about the huge wealth our politicians have managed to generate - for themselves, the Supreme Court has taken note of this and has asked Mr. Yadav and his family to explain the source of their wealth and file Income Tax returns. The Apex Court has also given the green signal to the department to go ahead with its investigations. Most of the politicians have started with humble beginnings and have contributed enormously to national wealth by making themselves rich first. All this without really having any vocation, profession or business. They are all full time devotees to people’s welfare and have really no time to engage in any activity to produce wealth, but by some unexplained quirk of fate, the poor politicians find themselves stuck with a few hundreds or thousands of Crores at the end of their thankless career. And normally the IT department is nice to them, especially if they are in the ruling party. The Supreme Court was dealing with a PIL filed by Vishwanath Chaturvedi and the court has kept options open about verifying his credentials too. Meanwhile it seems the heat is on in Lucknow against Chaturvedi, who is accused of forging documents. Whistle blowers do face threats!