Lucknow: National spokesperson of Samajwadi Party and three presidents of the party Akhilesh Yadav’s close aides on Saturday faced coordinated income tax raids at their homes and offices in four districts of Uttar Pradesh, leading the former chief minister to claim that “the ED, CBI and all other central agencies will follow suit”. “.
Over 125 Income Tax personnel pulled out to likeLucknow, Mainpuri, Agra and Bangalore will search half a dozen premises of SP spokesperson Rajiv Rai who runs a chain of educational institutes in Karnataka, RCL Group promoter Manoj Yadava, Akhilesh’s former OSD Jainendra Yadav alias Neetu, and associates of Rahul Bhasin and Jagat Singh. The official word was that the raids, which continued until midnight, were based on “secret information about tax evasion”.
“… I work for the welfare of the people so the government has initiated an action…,” said Rai, who unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha wants seat on SP ticket in 2014 and reported immovable assets worth Rs 13.85 crore in his election affidavit. Sources said that the operation will continue on Sunday as well. Akhilesh said the BJP was following in the footsteps of the Congress by using central agencies to intimidate political opponents as it had no other way to do so.
Over 125 Income Tax personnel pulled out to likeLucknow, Mainpuri, Agra and Bangalore will search half a dozen premises of SP spokesperson Rajiv Rai who runs a chain of educational institutes in Karnataka, RCL Group promoter Manoj Yadava, Akhilesh’s former OSD Jainendra Yadav alias Neetu, and associates of Rahul Bhasin and Jagat Singh. The official word was that the raids, which continued until midnight, were based on “secret information about tax evasion”.
“… I work for the welfare of the people so the government has initiated an action…,” said Rai, who unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha wants seat on SP ticket in 2014 and reported immovable assets worth Rs 13.85 crore in his election affidavit. Sources said that the operation will continue on Sunday as well. Akhilesh said the BJP was following in the footsteps of the Congress by using central agencies to intimidate political opponents as it had no other way to do so.
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