The Income Tax Department (IT Raid) on Friday raided the premises of Samajwadi Party (SP) MLC Pushpraj Jain alias Pumpi Jain (SP MLC Pushpraj Jain). Political allegations and counter allegations have started after the raid of the SP leader. First SP chief and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav questioned the central government regarding the raid, then now Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has retaliated.
The Finance Minister said that if the Law Enforcement Agency raids somewhere, it kills on the basis of information. In Kanpur, the perfume trader was raided under the information of GST. Due to which so much wrong information was spread in the last 2 days, a press note was issued to explain it. On the sidelines of the GST Council meeting, Sitharaman said that how did the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh come to know that this is the money of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)? Is this their partner? Is he scared?
Sitharaman further said that I want to ask those who are commenting on this that if the team went, did it come empty handed? If he had gone to the wrong person’s house, would he have got so much money in his house? Who are you saving? Has SP chief Akhilesh Yadav been shaken by this? Are they scared? He said that Akhilesh Yadav is saying that the money recovered during the raid is BJP’s money. How do they know they are partners? That’s why speaking so strongly.
#WATCH | He (SP chief) should not raise doubts about the professionalism of the organization. The height of (seized) cash is proof that law enforcement agencies are working honestly… Should we wait for post-poll ‘muhurta’ or catch the thief today itself?: FM Nirmala Sitharaman pic.twitter.com/r3CyIcmw66
– ANI (@ANI) December 31, 2021
The Finance Minister said that I am saying that BJP does not have money. They can definitely have a partnership. He said that there is concrete information in the raids going on even today. It is the duty of Akhilesh Yadav to criticize those who put money in wrong way. Sitharaman said that those who are raising the question that if you went to the wrong house, went to the wrong person’s house, then was your money kept there. Hey wrong guy’s house get so much money? The matter is being politicised.
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Akhilesh Yadav on Friday attacked the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, saying that they have corrupted politics and they are people spreading foul smell of hatred. Speaking to reporters, hours after the Samajwadi Party Legislative Council member Pushpraj Jain was raided in Kannauj on Friday, the SP chief hit back at the BJP, saying that the people of BJP are people spreading hatred and they have corrupted politics. There are people who stink of hatred, how would they like cordiality and fragrance.
He said that the people of BJP who are spreading the foul smell of hatred deliberately want to defame Samajwadi Party, they are also trying to defame Kannauj all over the world. At the same time, Yadav gave a slogan, “Ab ittra ka inquilab hoga, 22 mein change will happen.” The SP chief said that after the truth of the raid on Piyush Jain, the BJP itself got infamous and later to save its infamy, the SP MLC was raided.