“It is understood that all enforcement agencies working under the administrative control of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, must be undertaking enforcement actions based on a variety of inputs and actionable intelligence, as per extant laws,” said the letter addressed to Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey.
In the letter, the EC “strongly” advised that “all enforcement actions during the election period… should be absolutely neutral, impartial and non-discriminatory. Further, in case of suspected use of illicit money for electoral purposes, the chief electoral officer should be kept suitably informed during the MCC period.”
The Model Code of Conduct has been in place since March 10 and will continue till the end of the elections.
PTI also wrote that the I-T department roped in Central Reserve Police Force personnel to keep a vigil. Generally, the I-T department takes the help of local police during such operations. The searches snowballed into a political mudslinging.
“Black money worth crores were recovered at the house of private secretary of MP Chief Minister Kamal Nath. This has made one thing clear that those who are thieves have a complaint against the watchman,” PTI quoted BJP’s national General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya as saying.
Nath said the BJP was taking such actions for electoral gains. “The situation about the raids is not clear yet. It will be appropriate to speak after the situation is clear. But the entire country knows how the constitutional institutions were used and against whom they were used during the past five years,” Nath’s statement said.
With inputs from PTI
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