NEW DELHI: Accusing Modi authorities of “robbing” its accounts of practically Rs 66 crore by threatening the banks, Congress mentioned BJP regime is resorting to “tax terrorism” to cripple the principal opposition social gathering forward of elections and “murder democracy”. The social gathering drew a parallel between the “forcible withdrawal” of its cash and “notebandi” of 2017 as BJP’s determined measures to handicap the political rivals.Congress leaders Okay C Venugopal and Ajay Maken Thursday mentioned I-T division has taken an “arbitrary” motion by forcing the banks to switch round Rs 66 crore towards its “arbitrary” tax demand of Rs 210 crore on Congress, Indian Youth Congress and NSUI, because the social gathering’s enchantment towards the demand is pending earlier than the appellate authority.”If Congress’ funds are taken away, how will we campaign and fight elections. It is not murder of Congress, but murder of democracy itself. BJP is dragging the largest democracy in the world to a dictatorship raj,” the leaders mentioned.Maken requested BJP to reply if it had ever confronted tax calls for underneath Congress govts over many years. Underlining that political events are exempt from I-T, he mentioned Rs 210 crore tax on Congress is on the “petty” floor that it filed the 2019 I-T returns a number of days after the deadline, and that it had collected Rs 14.42 lakh out of Rs 142 crore from its MPs/MLAs.Jairam Ramesh mentioned the “tax robbery” on Congress is just like “demonetisation” whose sole goal was to make sure SP, BSP and Congress weren’t in a position to battle the 2017 elections in UP. Venugopal mentioned it was unfair that BJP would have the ability to use Rs 6,000 crore it has collected by means of electoral bonds which have been declared as unconstitutional, however Congress can not use the small donations it has raised from poor employees by means of crowd funding.
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