[virtuabhi]

Why are two Cabinet Ministers (Ashwini Vaishnaw and Prahlad Patel from Modi govt.) are in this list?

[duxup]

Testing?

Or someone was suspicious of them?

History shows that surveillance, oppression, and the targets of paranoia rarely limited to outsiders. ... The folks in power always seem to turn on their own too.

[random314]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm

Internally spied upon and executed on the basis of fake charges.

[meepmorp]

Internal politics? Some people have more enemies than others.

[srean]

Possibly for the same reason that blackmailers mail themselves, a trick as old as the woods.