This man Gali Janardhan Reddy has a long history of big-ticket crimes and large-scale corruption at the highest levels.
A son of a police constable, he built a fortune that probably ran into billions and a large mafia involving industrial and political bigwigs from both Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh political scene.
The man has spent more than a year in custody, during which time there was a failed attempt to bribe a Special Court Judge to approve this man's bail plea. The bribe attempt got exposed and the Judge was implicated.
When finally out on bail, the first thing the man did was to conduct his daughter's wedding at a mind-boggling budget of 500 crores, right when the whole country was going through the nonsense of demonetization.
Does the BJP care?
Nah !
They went ahead and fielded this man's two brothers and close friend during the recent Karnataka Assembly elections.
This is the true stand of the BJP on corruption.
A similar thing happened with YS Jaganmohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh. YSJ also spent more than a year in jail, and is out on bail, for cases relating to ITax, ED, and corruption. And the BJP has been actively flirting with YSJReddy and his party, and using YSJ and his party to fight a proxy war against ruling party in Andhra Pradesh.