Black Money
On the face value, it wud seem the govt was playing ping pong with those names, and feeding bits of pieces instead of the entire list.
But what the govt was actually doing was the following:
01. The list of 800+ names was a list received not from the Swiss but from indirect sources, way back in 2007. Hence revealing those names in public wud make the Swiss stone wall all co-operation in the investigation. Which wud put the govt in the back foot. And make them fail on their campaign promise.
02. The Congress intelligently (for their benefit) had already put in some treaties with the Swiss with the intention of protecting some of these names, which the present govt realized after they started investigation.
03. Major clause in these treaties (which the Cong did with the Swiss) was that, Swiss wud refuse to co-operate in the investigations if any single name in the list was revealed to gain political mileage. And they can safely claim to the Indian Public that, these names cannot be revealed due to issues of Double Taxation.
04. Now the BJP was caught in a quandry that, if they reveal all the list the Swiss wud stop co-operating, since some of these 800+ names were legal accounts, and due to the treaties. And, if they dont reveal then they wud seem as going back on their campaign promise.
05. Another major fallout which the govt realized is that, if all the 800+ names r revealed (some of which might be legal accounts), predictably, these legal account holders wud start howling from their roof tops about their privacy being violated. Which wud also make the illegal account holders join the chorus, mentioning that, their accounts too r legal. Evolving an overall state of confusion which wud spiral out of control completely.
06. So, as a master stroke, they revealed only 3 names, thereby increasing the impatience of the SC, which as expected asked the BJP to reveal all names immediately.
07. Now the responsibility of protecting (the legal accounts) or revealing (the illegal accounts), or both, now lies with the SC (after they receive the list from govt tomorrow), and no longer is that of the govt.
08. Meanwhile the govt can safely proceed with their investigations with all the illegal accounts within those 800+ names in their own time, and get back the illegal money.
09. That way, the govt gets to keep it's campaign promise (with little criticism from the fog headed media), while also ensuring that the SC themselves become part of the investigation, and also make the SC party to the after effects or fall out of revealing or not revealing those names.
10. And the best part being, even if all the names r revealed by the SC, the Swiss will not complain and not stop co-operating. Since the names were not revealed by a political party for their political gains, but the nation's topmost Court, in the interest of the nation.
11. The best part is, the Cong & the AAP who very well knew the BJP's predicament of not being able to reveal all the 800+ names for fear of non co-operation from the Swiss started cornering the BJP on going back on it's election promise. But, what they did not count on was the SC order to the govt (BJP) to reveal all the names immediately. Which the BJP is doing tomorrow.
12. Now the Cong does not know what to do? Since many of their tall leaders and families will be on the list. AAP does not know what to do. Since, sooner or later the BJP will start howling effectively thro their highly effective spokespersons that, it was they who revealed those names which the Congress cud not do in 120 months. Since, after the revelation of the list, the BJP's initial dilly dally will be completely forgotten in the euphoria and din raised with the success. more