Now, I-T raids AAP MLA house

Income - tax (IT) department sleuths on Wednesday raided the premises of AAP MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar’s residence on charges of alleged tax evasion.

I-T officials carried out searches on three premises of the Chhatarpur MLA in the national capital by teams having 40 income tax and police officials. According to sources the raid started around 8 am in the morning. The department claimed that it had received “actionable inputs” with regard to the MLA’s transactions and hence the operation was launched.

However, these raids drew angry reactions from the Aam Aadmi Party which accused the Modi government of targeting its MLAs out of “political vendetta”.

Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said, “Modi ji you deploy the CBI, Delhi police, IB, ED and Income Tax, but we will keep on with our work.” Senior AAP leader Ashutosh said Singh’s residence was gheraoed as he were a terrorist. He also accused the Delhi police of “misbehaving” with arrested AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s wife. “Now another AAP MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar is targeted. Income tax raid at his residence. Modiji when are you arresting me ” said Ashutosh.

AAP’s spokesperson Raghav Chadha said it is only his party MLAs and leaders who are facing action while tainted leaders of other parties were going scot-free. “BJP leaders are involved in several cases, but they are not even summoned by the police. Whereas in the AAP’s case, its leaders are immediately arrested,” he said, adding, “Of the 78 ministers in the Narendra Modi government, 14 face criminal charges. Of the 282 BJP MPs, 98 have criminals charges.”