Days after Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu had staged a protest against the Income Tax raids recently conducted on his party leaders, a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) delegation led by Naidu met State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Gopal Krishna Dwivedi today in relation to the IT raids.
Amaravati: TDP delegation lead by Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu meets state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Gopal Krishna Dwivedi over I-T raids on party leaders. pic.twitter.com/iWpZ1pP6u8
— ANI (@ANI) April 10, 2019
Naidu alleged that Prime Minister Modi wants to demolish democracy and therefore he was launching ‘Save India Save Democracy’ campaign.
AP CM Chandrababu Naidu: I’m asking I-T dept who’re you to do 1 sided raids, on TDP.Once elections are announced, it’s a level playing field; you’ve to treat everybody equal. Otherwise, it’s unjustified. Modi wanted to demolish democracy, so I launched ‘Save India Save Democracy’ pic.twitter.com/iaze9rGncC
— ANI (@ANI) April 10, 2019
Calling the raids as unjustified, Naidu accused the Income Tax Department of conducting one-sided raids on the TDP leaders. IT sleuths had yesterday raided location connected with TDP MP Galla Jayadev. Jayadev had alleged that the raids are being conducted on him for being an outspoken critic of PM Modi.
Recently, the IT Department had conducted raids at 50 locations connected with Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath in which a huge amount of cash was found stuffed in suitcases. The IT Department had claimed to have detected a widespread and well-organised racket of collection of unaccounted cash of approximately Rs 281 crore during the raids. However, Kamal Nath also tried to save his face by terming the IT raids a political conspiracy by PM Modi.
