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The Congress leadership on Thursday accused the ruling establishment of "freezing the party accounts" ahead of the Lok Sabha elections and blamed PM Modi for it..
While Sonia Gandhi made a rare presence at the AICC press conference, along with party president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi, to allege a plot to dry up the party funds and cripple the Congress poll campaign, Rahul Gandhi said the action against the opposition party's bank accounts showed that there "is no democracy" in the country and that "India being the largest democracy is a lie"...
The Congress leaders' charge came in the context of income-tax notices to the party and recovery of 115 crore as penalty so far amid the party losing appeals in the Income-Tax Tribunal and its appeal in the Delhi High Court getting rejected..
Kharge and other leaders said they could approach the Supreme Court in this regard even as the leaders lamented that the institutional bodies were not stepping in against the I-T recovery...
"This has been done literally two months before the election...This is a criminal action on the Congress party and this a criminal action done by the prime minister and the home minister, it is very clear..
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