The HDW case dragged on in the courts, reached the Supreme Court of India, and was finally closed fifteen years later with the CBI saying it had no concrete evidence to prosecute the Nandas. No surprises there. In the 1980s, the HDW allegations, along with the Bofors scandal, kicked up India’s first true national outrage against corruption. It quite possibly changed the course of politics for years, wiping out the dominance of the Congress party and creating the new narrative of coalition politics comprising smaller regional parties. In 2014, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to office,
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