Praveen Chakravarty, chairperson, All India Professionals’ Congress and data analytics department, on Friday criticised the BJP government at the Centre for the Income Tax Department’s decision to freeze the bank accounts of the All India Congress Committee and the Youth Congress. He called it a “black day for democracy”.
Addressing journalists at the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee headquarters Sathyamurthy Bhavan, he sought to make a link between the Supreme Court declaring the electoral bonds unconstitutional and the decision to freeze the Congress’s bank accounts.
“This is the Narendra Modi government’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling in the electoral bonds case,” he said. “The BJP received ₹6,565 crore from corporates through electoral bonds, whereas the Congress received the money in its bank accounts from four lakh party workers and members of the public as donations in the past three months. Why is the BJP allowed to keep its money when the scheme has been deemed unconstitutional,” he asked.
