It has become a common practice to withdraw pending cases filed by the government when new ruling party comes in power.
What BJP did now in withdrawing cases against netas is not a new thing. Congress ruling party did the same thing when they came to power first after defeat of MGP party and later after defeat of BJP party. Have a look to something similar thing working at all India level! Retiring President of India, Pratibha Patil, exercised her executive prerogative and granted clemency to 35 convicts of death sentence by highest court in India, and rejected only 3 - a record by any president of India so far. Without checking, she even granted clemency to one convict who was dead in prison much earlier to President sanctioning clemency! Just for record: A.P.J.A. Kalam received 25 clemency petitions; rejected plea of Dhanajoy Chatterfee, India's last execution; commuted one to life and returned all other pleas. K. R. Narayanan: Sat to return all 100 pleas; S. D. Sharma: Rejected all 14 mercy petitions. U. G. Barad On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Soter forwarded a message, under title 'BJP netas go free in Governor car attack case', that appeared in TOI - Goa edition
