Theft at BJP office: no leads, axe could fall on treasurer

While private detectives who have been hired for nabbing the culprit are busy doing their job, accusing fingers are being raised at several office functionaries. The work of the accountant has been assigned to a different person pending the inquiry. Since all four locks in the vault as well as the room have been found intact after the theft, it is certainly the job of an insider who had access to the keys. Finding itself in a financial scandal of sorts, the second since the Bangaru Laxman episode, there is a clear attempt to avoid an exposure of the trail of the money which is likely in case the party approaches the police.

However, senior leaders are also worried about the negative effect of the theft on the party8217;s image. Its prime ministerial candidate L K Advani is understood to have taken up the matter with party chief Rajnath Singh.