India Edition | Politics The Great Scandal of the Funding That Never Arrived

REVP approached Donald Trump. Trump allegedly did not reply. Kratos saw a betrayal of India. In politics, apparently, you no longer need a deal to make a scandal.

India’s REVP wanted funding, so it knocked on Donald Trump’s door. According to party president Sid1802, Trump did not answer. End of negotiations. Beginning of the outrage.

Kratos has questioned the patriotism and integrity of REVP and its members. Sid1802’s response reads like an inventory of an empty warehouse: no reply, no agreement, no funding, no commitment. The approach happened; the rest, REVP says, remains to be proved.

The defence has its comic side. “We received no money” is a precise answer to the claim that the party was funded. It leaves one political question untouched: why did a party proclaiming “India First” seek funding from a foreign player? An unsuccessful attempt is still an attempt. Voters deserve to hear the reasoning behind it—and, ideally, what the message actually said.

Kratos has a question to answer too. If he has evidence of a deal or a commitment against India’s interests, now would be an excellent time to produce it. If all he has is the approach REVP has already admitted, he is free to criticise it. Calling it betrayal requires more than a thunderous voice in public chat.

Meanwhile, Sid1802 asks citizens to judge REVP by its actions and policies. Fair enough. That will be easier once the detailed political programme promised in his article is ready to examine.

So India’s politics offers a peculiar spectacle: one party must explain why it approached Trump, one accuser must explain what he actually knows, and Trump may not even have read the message. For now, at least one of the three has managed to stay out of the argument.