BJP attacked the Gandhi family after the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal rejected Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea to consider Young India as a charitable institution.
Briefing reporters in New Delhi, Union Minister and senior party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad accused Congress of hiding the truth and indulging in corruption in the matter related to Associated Journals Limited, AJL. He said, they amassed properties worth more than two thousand crore rupees through the investment of just Rs 50 lakh in AJL.
Mr Prasad said, for Congress, family and commerce run hand-in-hand and are integrally linked.
He said that Rs 90 crores were given to the National Herald paper and government properties worth Rs 2,000 crores were handed to the Associated Journals Limited which used to run the paper, even after the newspaper ceased operations in 2008.
Mr Prasad said, in 2010, Young India Limited was formed and was exempted from Income Tax in the name of a charitable trust. He alleged, the Congress has hidden the facts for tax exemption.
Mr Prasad said, the BJP condemns this palpable, dubious transaction of undue enrichment which is corruption.
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