Quoting Congress leaders, the chief minister said that between 2017 and 2018, the BJP obtained contributions from 92 undisclosed donors and from 1,297 donors lacking address details.”Should the same criteria (of raising tax demand) be applied to the BJP, it would be liable to pay Rs 4,263 crore for tax discrepancies over the last seven years,” Siddaramaiah said.He charged that the Income Tax Department has become “hyperactive”, using ‘tax terrorism’ as a tool against opposition parties, including, TMC and CPI, as the election approaches.However, the same IT Department, which aggressively targets opposition parties, mysteriously turns a blind eye to the BJP’s tax violations.The public is not so ignorant as to not question who is blindfolding the IT Department, the chief minister stated.”The IT Department, which levies accusations of tax violations against certain Congress leaders citing supposed diary entries, overlooks the Yediyurappa diaries exposed in Karnataka, as well as the ‘Birla-Sahara’ diary that suggests Narendra Modi was a beneficiary. Why have these not caught the department’s attention?” Siddaramaiah asked.He alleged that the ruling BJP has misappropriated thousands of crores through electoral bonds, misusing institutions like IT, ED, and CBI.However, now, in order to divert the people’s attention from this huge scam, the BJP government is making false accusations of income tax evasion with the malicious intention of portraying the opposition parties as guilty, the chief minister charged.”In the past five years, the BJP government has written off around Rs 10. 09 lakh crore of bank loans of fraudsters like Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi. The public deserves to know how many kickbacks the BJP received from these individuals,” Siddaramaiah claimed.
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