"It's Not BJP Money": Finance Minister On Rs 197 Crore UP Raid
NDTV
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the nearly Rs 200 crore cash recovered from perfume maker Piyush Jain is "not BJP money", as she defended the timing of the tax raids saying they were based on actionable intelligence.
Speaking to reporters after the GST Council meeting, she said law enforcing agencies act on actionable intelligence in conducting raids.
"It is not BJP money," she said when asked about opposition charge that the Rs 197.49 crore cash recovered from perfume maker Piyush Jain in UP's Kannauj was her party's money and the tax authorities had raided the person by "mistake" and are now raiding the other Jain they had originally wanted to target.
She said the former Chief minister Akhliesh Yadav is "shaken" by the raids, as she sought to defend the action.
