BENGALURU: Raising fears about conceivable income tax raids on Congress-JD(S) functionaries, Karnataka leader minister H D Kumaraswamy Wednesday claimed CRPF group of workers have been brought from quite a lot of portions of the country to carry out I-T raids in Karnataka.
"I have got a specific information that some 200 to 300 CRPF sleuths have arrived from various parts of the country. They will be ferried from the airport to the city. They have been brought to Bengaluru from other states to carry out income tax raids in Karnataka," Kumaraswamy advised newshounds at Mandya.
He claimed that the raids could also be performed at 5am Thursday.
I-T officers weren't immediately available for comment.
Striking a belligerent notice, Kumaraswamy warned the BJP-led NDA government that he would follow what his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee did if it tried to "bully" the Congress-JDS coalition partners.
Banerjee had staged a "Save the Constitution" dharna from February 3 to five at Kolkata after the CBI's failed bid to query Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in reference to chit fund cases.
Kumaraswamy alleged that the Centre had resorted to politics of vengeance using the income tax officers as its agents. Sending a stern message to income tax officers, he stated, "I know the sport income tax officers are playing on the ultimate level of election.
They will have to be wary because if they suspect that they can function just like the agents of a political birthday celebration ceaselessly, they'll finally end up repenting."
Kumaraswamy accused the income tax officers of being unfair. He stated normally the taxmen take the help of state police while sporting out raids however this time they brought CRPF jawans from quite a lot of portions of the country.
"Let us see from whom they will collect... I think the Congress and the JD(S) functionaries can be the target," the chief minister stated.
Insisting that he by no means believed in politics of vengeance, Kumaraswamy stated he by no means got here in the best way of Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths to raid corrupt officers.
"If they (Centre) try to bully us, I will follow what Mamata Bannerjee did," he added.
Alarmed through the disclosure, the Congress' Karnataka unit sought after to know whether I-T, Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation were the fingers of the BJP-led Central government to win elections.
"Are the CBI, I-T and ED election tools against the opposition parties? First time in the history of India (Prime Minister) Modi misused the autonomous institutions on large-scale. People will teach a lesson to a failed Narendra Modi for his action against the leaders of coalition government," the Congress tweeted.
Lok Sabha elections are being held in two stages in Karnataka on April 18 and 23.
"I have got a specific information that some 200 to 300 CRPF sleuths have arrived from various parts of the country. They will be ferried from the airport to the city. They have been brought to Bengaluru from other states to carry out income tax raids in Karnataka," Kumaraswamy advised newshounds at Mandya.
He claimed that the raids could also be performed at 5am Thursday.
I-T officers weren't immediately available for comment.
Striking a belligerent notice, Kumaraswamy warned the BJP-led NDA government that he would follow what his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee did if it tried to "bully" the Congress-JDS coalition partners.
Banerjee had staged a "Save the Constitution" dharna from February 3 to five at Kolkata after the CBI's failed bid to query Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in reference to chit fund cases.
Kumaraswamy alleged that the Centre had resorted to politics of vengeance using the income tax officers as its agents. Sending a stern message to income tax officers, he stated, "I know the sport income tax officers are playing on the ultimate level of election.
They will have to be wary because if they suspect that they can function just like the agents of a political birthday celebration ceaselessly, they'll finally end up repenting."
Kumaraswamy accused the income tax officers of being unfair. He stated normally the taxmen take the help of state police while sporting out raids however this time they brought CRPF jawans from quite a lot of portions of the country.
"Let us see from whom they will collect... I think the Congress and the JD(S) functionaries can be the target," the chief minister stated.
Insisting that he by no means believed in politics of vengeance, Kumaraswamy stated he by no means got here in the best way of Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths to raid corrupt officers.
"If they (Centre) try to bully us, I will follow what Mamata Bannerjee did," he added.
Alarmed through the disclosure, the Congress' Karnataka unit sought after to know whether I-T, Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation were the fingers of the BJP-led Central government to win elections.
"Are the CBI, I-T and ED election tools against the opposition parties? First time in the history of India (Prime Minister) Modi misused the autonomous institutions on large-scale. People will teach a lesson to a failed Narendra Modi for his action against the leaders of coalition government," the Congress tweeted.
Lok Sabha elections are being held in two stages in Karnataka on April 18 and 23.
'CRPF men in Bengaluru to carry out I-T raids'
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