Manipur Congress Accuses BJP of Freezing Bank Accounts Ahead of Lok Sabha Polls

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Imphal, March 22: The Congress party in Manipur on Friday accused the BJP of recently freezing the party’s bank accounts by the Income Tax ahead of the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls.

Speaking at a press conference held in Congress Bhavan here, senior Manipur Congress leader and former chief minister O Ibobi Singh alleged that the freezing of all bank accounts of the Congress party is a part of BJP’s attempt to transform the nation’s democracy into dictatorship.

He said that it is unfortunate that the Income Tax has frozen all the bank accounts of the party where money donated by the well-wishers and supporters of the party were deposited.

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“The act is nothing but to abolish the opposition parties, particularly the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha polls and eliminate democracy from the country by holding the elections to elect BJP candidates only,” he said.

“From this very act of freezing the accounts of the Congress party, it is very clear that the saffron party wanted to win the elections without any hurdle from other parties and among the opposition parties, BJP fears the Congress most as shown by the act of freezing the bank accounts”, he further said.

Ibobi added that the upcoming election is very crucial for the people of the country as it would decide the fate of the country’s democracy.

“In order to save democracy, it is high time to bring a change in the government at the Centre which will be formed after the elections”, he said.

Attending the press conference, Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president K Meghachandra said that the act of freezing of AICC’s accounts by the Income Tax was done at the instigation of the BJP, the party in power at the Centre.

He alleged that the BJP has a motive to eliminate all other parties, particularly the opposition so that there is no hurdle in converting the BJP’s secret agenda into actions.

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The topmost agenda of the BJP is to eliminate the Congress first so that the party can rule the country like a dictator, he added.

He said that even though donations to the parties were exempted from levying income tax, it was not done for the Congress since the BJP came to power at the Centre.

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