Vijay Mallya's Extradition Proves Modi's Anti-Corruption Stance; Did We Really Need Proof?

"In a major diplomatic win for the Narendra Modi government, the United Kingdom Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, on Monday signed the order for fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya's extradition to India. The extradition request was approved to allow Mallya to return to India to face trial for alleged fraud and money laundering cases, amounting to Rs 9,000 crores." Source: Times Now

The same news piece tells that people are hailing this extradition as a proof of Narendra Modi's anti-corruption commitment. But the question arises if we really needed such a proof?

Narendra Modi government has from the beginning of its term taken all steps to curb black money and corruption in all spheres. Its Digital India initiative is built as a backbone infrastructure to bring transparency. Its Jan Dhan program was made to facilitate direct benefit transfer and hence avoid middlemen eating into the poor people's benefits and subsidies. The government took a bold step of demonetization as a desperate measure to shake up the existing order in order to create a new order based on transparency and honesty. 

Newspapers are filled with stories of anti-corruption raids on businessmen and politicians. Even if corruption was done by a BJP leader, the government has not stopped in taking action against such a person. 

Anti-corruption movement was the reason why Modi won election against dynasty based Con. Party which was deep into corruption from head to toe. Therefore, it is definitely surprising if this extradition should be taken as a proof of Narendra Modi's Government's anti-corruption stance. Everything that this government has done, has been done to prevent large scale corruption. This is also one reason why activists and common people equally want Narendra Modi to come back to power in 2019 General Election.

- Rahul