Prime Minister Narendra Modi while interacting with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi engaged in pleasantries with a 'divyang' entrepreneur at the programme.
Commenting on the recent Income Tax raids on his premises, in which crores of rupees were unearthed, Congress MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu for the first time responded, saying that the money has nothing to do with the grand old party or any political party.
The Delhi High Court has dismissed the News Portal NewsClick plea challenging the orders dated November 3 and February 20 passed by the Income Tax Department and said it has not been able to make out a prima facie case in its favour.
The Income Tax department has, so far, recovered a cash haul of Rs 351 crore during its searches on Boudh Distillery Private Limited, a company based in Odisha. The company is allegedly linked to Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dheeraj Sahu, sources said.
As the currency counting of 176 bags is completed after the Income Tax raids at properties connected to Rajya Sabha MP Dheeraj Sahu, the Income Tax department will deposit all the sized cash at the same bank in Balangir SBI main branch following the official procedure on Monday.
After Amit Shah charged Congress with corruption over Income Tax raids on party MP Dheeraj Sahu, MP Manickam Tagore called the Home Minister's remarks "unfortunate".
After Union Home Minister Amit Shah targeted the INDIA bloc for remaining "silent" on the Income Tax seizure of over Rs 200 crores, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi asserted that blaming the opposition for Congress MP Dheeraj Sahu's business interests was unjust.
Referring to the seizure of huge amounts of cash in Income Tax raids at premises linked to a Congress MP, Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday said that the BJP aims for 400 seats, while Congress indulges in Rs 400 crore corruption.
"When the BJP sends central agencies to harass TMC, Congress says big things and supports them but when their own leaders are raided, they feel bad," said Ghosh.
Amid the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) barb over the seizure of huge amounts of cash during the Income Tax raids at the premises linked to Congress MP Dheeraj Sahu in Jharkhand, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy asked Rahul Gandhi on Sunday why he had not posted anything on social media regardi