BJP has increased taxes by 17 times and forced traders to pay it: AAP
The Hindu
Party will face consequences for its negative campaign: BJP
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday said the BJP-governed municipal corporation has increased taxes by 17 times and forced traders to pay it. The party had reduced taxes close to elections, but it is not returning the money that the traders were forced to pay earlier, AAP claimed.
AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “We grew up listening and believing that the BJP is the business community’s party. Today when the BJP is in power, it has done nothing but brought pure destruction to the traders’ community. Forget the Centre, if we look at the BJP-led MCD, in the last five years they have tortured the traders to the point of making them shed tears of blood. And the trader community leaders of the BJP themselves sit and say that there isn’t anyone to listen to their demands.”
Responding to the allegations, Delhi BJP Spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said being an MLA for seven years, Mr. Bharadwaj should know that if the rate of any government tax is reduced in the middle of the year, the excess tax paid is not refunded but adjusted in future.
With the clock ticking down to the Lok Sabha election counting day on Tuesday, opposing fronts are perceptibly edgy and poised to continue the rancorous skirmishing that marked the campaign season in Kerala. The United Democratic Front, led by the Congress, is seemingly basking in the “interim victory” granted by various exit polls. The UDF discerns that its poll strategy of turning the polls foremostly into a damning referendum on the Left Democratic Front government’s perceived failures rather than BJP’s “divisive politics” at the national level stood a fighting chance of paying off.