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  AAP: Withdraw changes in act on foreign funds

AAP: Withdraw changes in act on foreign funds

AGE CORRESPONDENT
Published : Apr 3, 2016, 2:22 am IST
Updated : Apr 3, 2016, 2:22 am IST

Arvind Kejriwal
 Arvind Kejriwal

Strongly condemning the proposed change in the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) by Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, the Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday demanded its withdrawal, alleging that the move has been proposed to bailout the BJP and Congress from facing imminent action for having accepted foreign funds.

“The amendment proposed with retrospective effect in the FCRA by Mr Jaitley when he moved the Finance Bill on February 29, which has now been exposed by the media, is illegal and a clear attempt to subvert justice since the Delhi high court had in March 2014 held both the BJP and Congress guilty of having accepted foreign funds. Further, the Supreme Court has so far refused to stay the Delhi high court judgment, even two years after the BJP and Congress were found guilty of having taken foreign funds,” the party said.

It added that Mr Jaitley’s desperate move to quietly amend the FCRA is one of the worst examples of political opportunism, which is clearly aimed at saving the BJP and Congress from the action sought against these two parties by the Election Commission.

“The EC had written to the Union home ministry in June last year seeking action under the relevant provisions of the FCRA against the BJP and Congress for having accepted crores of rupees as funds from companies of London-based Vedanta Group. Not only did the MHA kept sitting on the EC letter since almost a year now, the Modi government has now broken all records of political impropriety by having struck a deal with the Congress to allow both the BJP and Congress escape the law through an unethical amendment,” the party said.

The party said that it was extremely shocking that Mr Jaitley is trying to change the definition of a foreign company to bailout his own political party.

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