An open letter to Mr. Sanjiv Bhatt

Dear Mr. Bhatt

Recently you once ‘again’ wrote a letter to Mr. Narendra Modi but I am not sure if you got an answer yet and whether you SHOULD ever get! You know, a Chief Minister of any state is a busy man and he should never reply to a letter written out of personal vendetta and bagful of lies.

I, of course, understand that every human being wishes to get his two minutes of fame and you are no exception, assuming that you too are a normal human being. Your craving for fame is well known.

In your case getting ‘fame’ has not been much difficult as we all know that you have enough friends in media, bureaucracy and a particular political party who are in opposition in Gujrat now.  In fact you are so popular that they offer and you ACCEPT costly mobiles as ‘token of friendship’ while you are on duty.

And I must congratulate you that some ‘reputed’ media houses are in the habit of letting you capture their prime time basis only your unproved allegations. What else can I say when SIT has actually nailed you on what you do the best- spreading nefarious claims but still you are on media. You are a very lucky man, Mr. Bhatt. Ohh yes, being a police officer, I hope you have full faith in SIT.

How strange it is Mr. Bhatt that in your letter you ask Mr. Modi to “introspect his true self concealed behind a meticulous imagery created by his media managers”, well before I move on, a big  WOW to you, kudos for your choice of words. In fact I seriously feel that you should become a novelist, now after all you are too good in conjuring STORIES. We all know that and with your powerful friends, you might as well win a Booker’s prize. Try it!

Coming back to ‘introspection’, do you yourself know the meaning of this word? I doubt because had it been so you would have resigned for the custodial deaths that you ordered while you were the SP in Jamnagar.  Since you are concerned about humanity, I wonder if a human being was killed in custody or an animal! And to think you also shared your ‘valuable unsolicited views’ on Sohrabuddin encounter!

In fact you were ASP then, right but you arrested people baselessly under TADA and successfully murdered a man in your custody. Now please don’t get offended when I use the word ‘murdered’…you too have been using this word too often. You killed and yet you got let away! You sure have brains and why not? You are an alumni of IIT-B.

Tell me Mr.Bhatt, you were also involved in a mega recruitment scam, isn’t it. At least some reports say so though your friends in media never highlighted it. Don’t worry, they will not too.

Another feather in your cap was how you unsuccessfully tried to implicate a lawyer in a fake narcotics case (straight out of a bollywood movie, you watch too many of them?). A criminal case was filed against you and it is still on and you talk of morality in your letter. Had you been moral, you would have resigned.

Are you a late riser, Mr. Bhatt? I am asking so because your ‘conscience’ woke up a bit too late with respect to 2002 riots. I wonder why? What kept you silent for some years?

You kept harping that you were in the meeting but seven senior officers refuted your claim? Why should NOT we trust the other officers? In fact it is a folklore now that how you pressurized your driver Mr. Panth to falsely testify against SIT but he later told the truth. He said how you put pressure on him. Why, Mr. Bhatt? Why put pressure to prove that you were in a meeting while actually you were not. And yes, Mr. Panth has a conscience, learn from him.

As a crusader of truth, I fail to remember if you ever asked any media to interview Mr. Rais Khan who was a colleague of your ‘very dear friend’ Ms. Teesta Seethalvad? Now if you are a champion of truth and morality, you should have demanded but you did not. Well you must have had reasons!

Mr. Bhatt the whole nation has seen through you and we know where you come from. A man who is himself maligned should first prove his innocence rather than point finger at some one else but being the intelligent man you are, you indulged in policy of  “offence is the best defence” but it has not worked. The cases are still against you.

Now Mr. Bhatt the onus is on you to become a role model. Clear your name, if you can, in innumerable cases against you. Once you do so, then introspect on the career that you should follow. My advice is that you can perhaps contest elections on Congress ticket but don’t contest in Gujrat. It won’t work.

I also hope and sincerely pray that you can ‘introspect’ and find honest and truthful answers to some of these questions during your  lifetime.

Warm Regards

Jaideep Bhattacharjee