Addressing a press conference here today, Maken said that they have to do publicity for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections but their accounts are freezed.
Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi alleged that a systematic effort is underway by the Prime Minister to "cripple" the Indian National Congress financially while calling "unprecedented and undemocratic."
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge trained guns on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over the "freezing" of its bank accounts and said that the BJP received the highest amount of donation through electoral bonds but "froze the bank accounts related to Congress."
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced that the process to unlock the biometrics of indigenous people frozen during the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will commence after the election process concludes.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the European Union countries have intended to use proceeds from Russian assets frozen in Europe to fund arms purchases for Kyiv, reported TASS.
As per the ED, the Rs 123 crore amount frozen by the agency is suspected to be proceeds of crime, belonging to shell entities of Singapore and parked in the bank accounts of NIUM Indian Pvt Ltd on their behalf.
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Several Congress leaders and party workers including MLA Arif Masood, former minister PC Sharma, Mahila Congress State President Vibha Patel and others were present in the protest.
The Income Tax department will follow the normal course of action against tax recovery in the case of the Congress, sources said after party general secretary Ajay Maken alleged that the party's accounts have been frozen by the Income Tax department.
In an interim relief to the Congress party on Friday, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) allowed it to operate its frozen bank accounts with a lien of the Income Tax department.
Congress general secretary Ajay Maken alleged that the party's accounts have been frozen by the Income Tax department and called it the "freeze of democracy".