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Punjab CM questions timing of ED, income tax notices

  •   Wed, Nov 04 2020 02:43:41 PM

New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS): Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday questioned the timing of the various notices issued by the Enforcement Department (ED) and the Income Department to him and his family members ever since the state passed its amendment Bills to negate the impact of the Central farm laws.

Responding to a question during an informal media interaction at Jantar Mantar after his dharna, the Chief Minister said that besides the ED notice to his son Raninder, notices from the I-T had been received by him and his wife Preneet Kaur.

Even his two granddaughters, one of them a law student and another preparing for her engagement, as well as a teenage grandson had not been spared and had received notices, he disclosed.

"I don't know what to say on these except that the timing of these notices is suspect, since all of them have been issued by the Central agencies after his government initiated and got the farm amendment Bills passed in the Vidhan Sabha," said Amarinder Singh.

Trashing allegations of 'urban naxalism' against the agitating farmers, the Chief Minister rejected charges of his government instigating the farmers to protest.

He termed their agitation a reaction to the actions of the Central government, which had attacked their livelihood.

The problems were of the Centre's making, Punjab only wanted peace in which all people, including farmers and industry could thrive, he added.

Countering the Bharatiya Janata Party's claim that the Central farm laws were designed to free the farmers, the Chief Minister said, on the contrary, the farmers were being tied to the shackles of the corporates.

It was injustice not just to farmers of Punjab but to those of other states too, including Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, etc., he said in response to a question.

Asked about the Aam Aadmi Party's failure to join the dharna, the Chief Minister questioned their double standards and asked why their MLAs had accompanied him to meet the Governor to submit a copy of the resolution and amendment Bills which they had also voted for in the Vidhan Sabha.

 
  

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  • anthony, Mangalore

    Wed, Nov 04 2020

    The Country is painfully aware of how the Central Agencies are being misused to target opposition Leaders and Parties. This is the Ugly face of Modi's Maan Ki Baat and his innocent pretensions behind TV cameras in his reeated addresses to the Nation.Central Government Tax and Enforcement Agencies like Income Tax Dept and Enforcement Directorate have rarely raided BJP Leaders over the last six years. It will be nice to know through the media if any BJP leader has been issued any IT or ED Notice during the last six years. ED or IT departments would have known that large sums of money were transacted for luring of MLAs at the time of toppling of non-BJP governments but have turned a blind eye.

    All these Light(Media Trial) and Sound(Street Protests) Shows organised by the BJP across our country with the help of these Central Agencies be it in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Kerala and now in Punjab are Attempts to use these Central Agencies either to Overthrow Elected Govts or Destabilise Opposition ruled states not through healthy political debates and record of their Governance during he last six years but by misusing these Central Agencies and the slow Judicial process of our Courts to Defame and Discredit Elected Representatives of opposition parties.

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