Whatever goes up must come down. Indian Primer Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are now facing this cruel law of physics. The Modi government is being wracked by controversies and both scandals involving ministers at the center and in states.

Smriti Irani, minister of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, is under fire for alleged perjury after apparently furnishing false information about her educational qualifications in her nomination papers before the election commission at the time of the April-May 2014 general elections. Ironically, Irani is head of the education portfolio.

Similar is the case of Vasundhara Raje, chief minister of Rajasthan where Modi's BJP is in power. Raje is the victim of the so-called Lalit Modi scandal that erupted soon after the Modi government completed one year in office on May 26. Raje is accused of helping Lalit Modi, former boss of Indian Premier League (IPL) acquire travel documents from the government of UK.

Lalit Modi is facing charges of financial fraud of over $300 million when he was IPL commissioner during the tenure of the previous central government run by the Indian National Congress.

The list of woes for Modi does not end here. He is facing his worst period yet as apart from the two central ministers, three BJP-run state governments of Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and two Maharashtra ministers - all BJP leaders - are under the microscope for their alleged sins of omission and commission. All three of the BJP-run states named above have reported fresh scandals since the Modi government took over in New Delhi.

It is strange but true that Modi, who became prime minister of India 13 months ago on the strength of a tsunami of popular support in last year's general elections, is now having to deal with serious charges of corruption and moral turpitude directed at his own colleagues in the cabinet, as well as several state leaders of his party, the BJP.

The Modi government's singular achievement on its first anniversary of taking office on May 26 was that no scandal had erupted during this period. But now the bottom has been knocked out of this argument and his own government at the center is accused of criminal favoritism in the case of Lalit Modi, besides facing other potential scandals in the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra which run into hundreds of millions of dollars.

Raje finds herself in the eye of another scandal: allegations that she along with her parliamentarian son Dushyant Singh usurped the state government-owned Dholpur Palace and have been running it as a high-end private luxury hotel along with Lalit Modi. Moreover, the charge against the mother-and-son duo is that Lalit Modi pumped over 116,300,000 rupees ($1.83 million) into Dushyant Singh's company which has been running the palace hotel.

Another BJP-ruled state, Madhya Pradesh, is presently dealing with the controversy of turning the state's professional examination board, better known by the Hindi acronym Vyapam, into a personal fiefdom by vested interests with criminal intent and fleecing students of tens of millions of dollars.

The state of Maharashtra, India's financial hub which is presently run by a BJP-led government, is also in the opposition's crosshairs. Two Maharashtra ministers Pankaja Munde and Vinod Tawde are facing charges of awarding lucrative contracts to private parties without going through the laid down norms and procedures.

Things are getting out of hand for Modi who has maintained complete silence over all issues discussed above.

Under the circumstances, Modi has two options: to remove all ministers at the center and in states against whom alleged cases of corruption have surfaced, or to brazen it out.

As of now, Modi has taken to the second option. But the million dollar question is: How long can it continue?

The author is a New Delhi-based journalist and a political commentator who tweets @Kishkindha. bhootnath004@yahoo.com.