New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi’s high-pitched slogan of “Na khaunga, na khane dunga (I will neither be corrupt nor let others be corrupt)” now lies deeply buried in the east, after the very men the Bharatiya Janata Party once branded as the “faces of loot” – from the Narada tapes to the Louis Berger scandal – are now the crown jewels of his party’s roster of chief ministers. The BJP appears not to want to end corruption under Modi, but to own it.

After rewarding Himanta Biswa Sarma with a regional empire in Assam and installing Suvendu Adhikari as the chief minister of West Bengal, Modi has officially proven that his was never a war on graft but under him all that the BJP has run is a high-stakes laundering operation where high-profile corruption cases are the ultimate recruitment brochure for the chief minister’s bungalow in the Modi regime. 

As Suvendu Adhikari took the oath of office, the ghosts of the 2016 Narada sting operation, where he was caught on........

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