The Fastest Way to Close a Case Is to Join the Party

The opposition calls the BJP a washing machine: walk in with a corruption case, walk out clean. An Indian Express investigation found 25 politicians under CBI or ED investigation who then joined the ruling party. Twenty-three got relief. The BJP says no such machine exists.

The question, for the Government of India

So which is it? If the cases were real, why did they go quiet the moment these leaders joined the BJP? If they were fake, why file them in the first place? Pick one. Either way, the agencies were working for the party, not the law. And funny how the machine only ever spins one way.

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The record, by exhibit

“BJP ka washing machine” is the opposition's phrase, not ours, and the manufacturer maintains that no such appliance exists. The spin cycle is nevertheless a matter of public record, and it has never once been observed running in reverse.
This is not a party pamphlet. An Indian Express investigation in April 2024 counted 25 politicians who were under central agency investigation and then joined the BJP. Of those, 23 got relief: three cases closed outright, twenty parked in cold storage. Only two saw no let-up. That is a 92% success rate for a detergent nobody will admit to manufacturing, and nothing else in this country performs at 92%. Not the trains, not the exams, not the fuel.
The agencies' own arithmetic: of 121 political leaders probed by the ED since 2014, 115 were from the opposition, which is 95%. And per the government's own Rajya Sabha reply of 18 March 2025, the ED registered 193 cases against politicians between April 2015 and February 2025, producing 2 convictions and 0 acquittals. Read the second number again. Ten years, 193 cases, two convictions, and not one acquittal, which means the agency has neither convicted these people nor cleared them. It has simply kept them on the hook. If that is incompetence, it is world-class. If it is not incompetence, then it is the entire point.
Suvendu Adhikari: the sting operator Mathew Samuel says he handed him ₹5 lakh on camera, and that the CBI forensically verified the tape. Adhikari crossed to the BJP in December 2020. In May 2021 the CBI arrested four Narada-accused who had stayed in the TMC, and neither of the two who had left. The CBI's explanation is procedural: it lacked the Speaker's sanction to prosecute Adhikari, sanction it first sought in 2019, and said it had found nothing against Mukul Roy. Since 9 May 2026 Adhikari has been Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Himanta Biswa Sarma: in August 2015 the BJP published a booklet naming him a key suspect in the Louis Berger scam. Weeks later he joined the BJP. The CBI had questioned him for eight hours over Saradha in November 2014 and, per The Federal, never summoned him in the case again. Chief Minister of Assam since May 2021. He denies all of it, calls Saradha a political conspiracy, and has sent a defamation notice over the reporting.
(Steelman, stapled per house rules: Adhikari argues the reverse, that the Bengal state machinery piled cases on him once he left the TMC. He took exactly that to the Calcutta High Court in 2021, and the numbers support him: his election affidavit listed 1 criminal case in 2021 and 25 in 2026. Both things are true at the same time. The state police found twenty-four fresh reasons to be interested in him, and the central agencies mislaid theirs. That is not a contradiction, it is the finding. The agencies move with the politics, whichever direction the politics happens to be moving.)

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