Key Points
The Congress party has alleged that it received two more notices from the Income Tax Department on Friday night, a day after it received 1,800 crore notice..
He reiterated that Congress was a target of "tax terrorism"..
With elections around the corner, Congress accused the BJP-led Centre of misusing institutions like the income-tax department, ED, and CBI to subvert democracy..
Congress party President Mallikarjun Kharge asked the Centre why was it using the income tax department as a weapon to harass the principal opposition party..
While the Congress leaders claimed that it was a tax-exempted party, sources to PTI news agency said the party lost that privilege in 2018-19 due to extensive use of cash in the electoral process..
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