"Pawan Bansal hazir ho" ::::: Congress alleges 'Tax terrorism' by BJP Govt headed by Modi ... but there is a story of a 'failed deal'

 The Congress party has the good old Indian habit -- blame others even if the fault is yours and then claim victimhood ! The 'tax' issue actually blew up as it had failed to submit its return and the court declined to come to its rescue. 

On March 22, 2024, the Delhi High Court dismissed Congress party's pleas challenging the 'reassessment proceedings' initiated against it by the Income Tax Department.

A bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, while pronouncing the verdict, said, "We dismiss the writ petitions."

This month after the court order, the tax departments did make it move and recovered from 'Congress bank accounts' - Rs 135 crore. The amount meant 'recovery of dues and interest' as per the banking and tax rules. 

There's another case of Congress fault line. The tax involves seven financial years between 2014 and 2021. There is also an allegation of unaccounted transactions of Rs 500 crore. 

The timing for all these is 'pretty bad', as they put it. The original amount of 'tax' default goes to Rs 53 crore of 1994 when P V Narasimha Rao was the Congress president and Sitaram Kesri was the treasurer. Under Kesri, files were hardly maintained; cash was the norm and every Congressman and woman would sing: 'Na Khata, na bahi...Jo Chacha Kesri kahi, woh sahi". 

Uncle Kesri might have died; but such practices are not entertained in new Bharat.

Another year vis-a-vis tax issues for Congress is more recent - 2019. It was election year and the polls were lost by the grand old party. The slogan 'Chowkidar chor hae' against Narendra Modi had boomeranged.  All the political parties had to submit tax return by Dec 31, 2019; but the Congress had missed the deadline.

Now take the rule book. The political parties do not have to pay an tax. That's fine -- but the rules framed years back say -- the political parties have to submit Tax Returns and that's mandatory ! This Congress did not do.

Here comes a tale. The role of the then AICC treasurer Pawan Bansal -- who was replaced by Ajay Maken lately.  

"The Congress internal probe on the income tax row reportedly points at procrastination on the part of its former party treasurer Pawan Bansal and another AICC functionary, currently in charge of arranging helicopters for the party. 

Apparently, the AICC functionary had convinced Bansal that he would get the row with the income tax department settled through a commissioner. The deal, however, never materialised," writes longtime Congress watcher Rasheed Kidwai in 'India Today'.

Ting tong !! Why should Tax officials and the PM Narendra Modi get all the blame? 

The problem with tax rules in India is while a political party need not pay tax. submitting of return is compulsory and probably along with Mallikarjun Kharge even US envoys should take note of these !! 

If a party misses the deadline of submitting  the return - the real fun starts .... Tax exemption is lost and all your 'income and donation' can also become taxable. 

So what's was around Rs 199 crore ...along with dues and fines, the amount has shot up. Pay fine and one can go ahead. But Rahul Gandhi was advised to enlist the help of mom Sonia Gandhi (a former Congress president) and Kharge (incumbent party chief) to address a joint press conference. A historic one and they cried about the Tax Terrorism. 

Intellectual advisors like Jairam Ramesh followed it up in their press conferences. 

It's brilliant, and its called 'we are the victims' of Narendra Modi's intolerant India.

Ting tong; oh baby sing a song -- Ding Dong bell, Congress netas in the well. Na? 

Democracy is under threat is easier version for Sickular bus and also 'English media'.  

 

'ek aur admi Hafta (read Tax) dene se inkar karne wala hae'  ???????