Congress says it received fresh I-T notices of over ₹1,800 crore; accuses BJP of ‘tax terrorism’

The party said the I-T department should raise a demand of more than ₹4,600 crore from the saffron party for such violations.

Also Read: Rahul Gandhi to announce 5 Congress guarantees for India

Alleges ‘tax terrorism’

Ramesh alleged that through the “electoral bonds scam”, the BJP has collected ₹8,200 crore and used the route of “pre-paid, post-paid, post-raid bribes and shell companies”.

On the other hand, the BJP is engaged in “tax terrorism”, he alleged.

“Efforts are being made to financially cripple the Congress, but we are not going to be cowed down,” Ramesh said.

He asserted that Congress’s campaign for the upcoming parliamentary polls will continue and the party will take its guarantees to the people of the country.

“We will not be scared of these notices. We will be more aggressive and fight these polls,” the former Union minister said.

Maken alleged that the Congress and other like-minded opposition parties are being selectively targeted by the I-T department, which he described as the BJP’s “frontal organisation”.

The I-T department has launched a premeditated, diabolical campaign against Congress by reopening matters of old returns on baseless grounds, he said.

Maken said the Congress will approach the Supreme Court soon over the I-T department’s demands from it.

(Disclaimer: The headline, subheads, and intro of this report along with the photos may have been reworked by South First. The rest of the content is from a syndicated feed, and has been edited for style.)