In 2016, a senior bureaucrat and his son died by suicide after what their note described as brutal CBI torture and harassment. The note explicitly referred to Amit Shah, with one officer allegedly boasting of being "Amit Shah's man." Yet, in election after election, not one Returning Officer has ever dared to reject Amit Shah's nomination papers over non-disclosure of this damning reference, because there was no FIR or case against him on this matter, although in a functional democracy he would have been investigated. Cut to June 2026. Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan's Rajya Sabha nomination from Madhya Pradesh has been rejected. No FIR, no chargesheet, just a passing mention in a private complaint filed by an individual against someone else. And suddenly, the Returning Officer discovers an "affidavit incompliance" and rejects her nomination. When a suicide note names the HM the system looks away, when a Congress candidate is casually mentioned in a flimsy complaint, the same system swings its sword. The double standards are nauseating. And let us not forget, Modi lied about his marital status in affidavits for years. No RO rejected his nomination then. Because the Election Commission tried to offer a level playing field.
