This will deal another blow to the party, which only recently saw the I-T department withdrawing Rs 135 crore from its bank accounts for previous dues. The “unaccounted transactions” of Rs 523.87 crore were traced during I-T raids conducted prior to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Tankha who represented the Congress before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal on Friday after its accounts were frozen says, “If you are choking us completely, then the Congress will be out of elections … I asked whether the IT Department doesn’t want democracy to survive in India.”