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From Urdu poems to sex abuse: Meet the man who destroyed Raghavji

FP Staff • July 10, 2013, 11:34:24 IST
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BJP leader Shiv Shankar Pateria, who has been suspended from the party after he admitted to being the one to leak the CDs which led to Raghavji’s arrest, has come a long way, but he couldn’t be happier about it.

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From Urdu poems to sex abuse: Meet the man who destroyed Raghavji

BJP leader Shiv Shankar Pateria, who has been suspended from the party after he admitted to being the one to leak the CDs which led to Raghavji’s arrest, has come a long way, but he couldn’t be happier about it. According to an Indian Express report, Pateria had always craved the kind of political attention he’s at the receiving end of now. [caption id=“attachment_944391” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![PTI](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/RaghavJi_MP_PTI1.jpg) PTI[/caption] Pateria, 51, would lobby repeatedly with Madhya Pradesh BJP president Narendra Singh Tomar for assignments – with Urdu poetry. “Ye kabra, ye kafan, ye zanaze, rasm-e-dunia hai. Mar to insaan tab hi jata hai jab yad karne vala koi na ho,” he recited. The verses translate as “This grave, this shroud..this funeral are all society’s rituals; a man dies the moment there’s no one to remember him.” Now, despite his suspension, Pateria is in high spirits at becoming a topic of discussion in BJP and RSS circles. “Mohan Bhagwat must be asking Rajnath Singh who Shivshankar Pateria is,” he said to the Indian Express. Pateria views himself as a bit of a “whistleblower”, and says that he was driven to “cleanse the party” of dirty elements. [embedalsosee] The BJP on Saturday had suspended Pateria from the primary membership of the party for exposing the sexual misdeed of party veteran Raghavji. According to the Indian Express report, Pateria cultivated the domestic help at Raghavji’s bungalow, where he was a frequent visitor for the last three months. He  got the CD made to pull down a man he once  called his mentor. “He did not help me, the BJP did not give me any work,” he says to the paper. The decision came soon after he admitted to the media that he was in possession of 22  compact discs (CDs) containing footage of the former Minister sexually abusing his domestic help. Besides, he had also dropped enough hints to the media about similar misconduct on the part of a couple of other ministers without any further reference putting the party into deep trouble. Raghavji has been the Finance Minister of the state since 2003, has delivered the state budget ten times and was also part of the Empowered Committee of the State Finance Minister that was to decide on the contentious Goods and Services Tax. Prior to the expose by Pateria, he has maintained a blemish free record in his political career. Read the full report here.

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