“Why are the TDP leaders in panic mode if the Income-Tax raids are not true as claimed by them? And their reactions suggest that there is indeed something fishy,” BJP Rajya Sabha member G.V.L. Narasimha Rao has observed.
Addressing the media here on Friday, he wondered why the TDP leaders raised a hue and cry instead of welcoming the searches on the tax evaders.
Mr. Rao said the allegation that the Central government was behind the I-T searches was false, and asserted that it rather exposed the large-scale corruption in the State.
He said appeals were made to the courts to halt the searches but to no avail as the huge amounts of unpaid tax had to be unearthed.
“The BJP-led NDA government has begun cleansing the economy by getting a large number of shell or suitcase companies closed through demonetisation. It is enforcing the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 2016, to curb black money. Those involved in such nefarious activities have to go to jail even if they have political backing,” he said.