India News | IT Dept Freezes Cong's Four Main Accounts on 'flimsy Grounds', Says Treasurer
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The Income Tax department has frozen the Congress' four main bank accounts on "flimsy grounds", party treasurer Ajay Maken claimed on Friday and alleged that democracy was in danger in the country.
New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) The Income Tax department has frozen the Congress' four main bank accounts on "flimsy grounds", party treasurer Ajay Maken claimed on Friday and alleged that democracy was in danger in the country.
This has affected all political activity of the party, Maken said at a press conference. Sources later said nine accounts had been frozen.
The accounts were frozen on an Income Tax demand of Rs 210 crore for 2018-19, an election year, Maken said.
"For the first time in the country's history, accounts of the principal opposition party have been frozen by the tax authorities on flimsy grounds, barely two weeks before the announcement of general elections," Maken told reporters.
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He appealed to the judiciary to save democracy as it was in danger and said the country is headed towards one-party democracy.
Maken said the party has already appealed to the Income Tax appellate authority.
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