Acting on specific complaint lodged by the CPI(M), the Election Commission has asked the Reserve Bank of India to investigate into the use of huge amount of black money by the Trinamool Congress in poll-bound West Bengal allegedly through illegal bank transactions. Sending instruction to the RBI the Election Commission has directed the RBI to probe into the conduct of two nationalized banks in Kolkata – Allahabad Bank and the United Bank of India - who reportedly issued drafts of Rs 1.33 crore against cash deposit by the Trinamool Congress violating EC’s guidelines on election expenditure.
It is learnt that Trinamool Congress got issued drafts aggregating to Rs 1.23 crore by the UBIon March 23,2011 in favour of Ms Visual Audio and draft of Rs 10 lakh by Allahabad Bank on April 24,2011 in favour of Rs 10 lakh Power Global Access India Private Limited by deposit of cash. Ignoring standing rules the two said banks did not even ask for Permanent Accounts Number (PAN) required before issuing the drafts.
The EC has also issued a letter to Trinamool Congress asking it to explain the “circumstances under which the drafts got issued by deposit of cash, in violation of RBI guidelines without routing it through the bank account and the EC’s instructions” on election expenditure. “ It may be mentioned here that the EC in its all party meeting at its headquarters in Delhi has advised all the political parties to avoid transactions in cash during election process,” the EC said in its letter to the TMC leader and the Union Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee. The EC’s action came after an Income Tax inquiry. The EC also issued separate letters to both the banks – Allahabad Banks branch at 2, N.S. Road and UBI at Hemanta Bose Sarani – to explain the circumstances under which such drafts were issued. THE RBI guidelines of 2009 specifically prohit any remittance of funds by way of demand drafts or telegraphic transfer or any other mode for value of Rs 50,000 and above against cash payment.
Taking up the black money issue with the Chief Election Commission the CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechuri said his party had already submitted enough evidences of black money usage by the Trinamool and his party had already furnished such evidences to the EC which should act now.
The CPI(M) leader criticized Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, saying the Congress and Trinamool Congress combine were revealing certain data partially in order to influence electorates, which violates the EC’s code of conduct. “ The selective leakage of the data that the Union Home Minister is indulging in , trying to portray the Left Front as aggressor and our opponents as the victims, wheras it is in their own recoprds , their own figures, it can be seen that since the Lok Sabha elections, nearly 380 Left Front workers have killed by the Trinamool and the Maoists, and this data exists with all the required evidences, but on this Home Minister is quiet,” said Yechuri.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Housing Minister Gautam Deb, who already submitted documents and papers in support of his charges of the use of huge amount of black money by the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, met the Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quereshi who paid a visit to Kolkata on April 28 to oversee the poll arrangements.
source-Ganashakti
It is learnt that Trinamool Congress got issued drafts aggregating to Rs 1.23 crore by the UBIon March 23,2011 in favour of Ms Visual Audio and draft of Rs 10 lakh by Allahabad Bank on April 24,2011 in favour of Rs 10 lakh Power Global Access India Private Limited by deposit of cash. Ignoring standing rules the two said banks did not even ask for Permanent Accounts Number (PAN) required before issuing the drafts.
The EC has also issued a letter to Trinamool Congress asking it to explain the “circumstances under which the drafts got issued by deposit of cash, in violation of RBI guidelines without routing it through the bank account and the EC’s instructions” on election expenditure. “ It may be mentioned here that the EC in its all party meeting at its headquarters in Delhi has advised all the political parties to avoid transactions in cash during election process,” the EC said in its letter to the TMC leader and the Union Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee. The EC’s action came after an Income Tax inquiry. The EC also issued separate letters to both the banks – Allahabad Banks branch at 2, N.S. Road and UBI at Hemanta Bose Sarani – to explain the circumstances under which such drafts were issued. THE RBI guidelines of 2009 specifically prohit any remittance of funds by way of demand drafts or telegraphic transfer or any other mode for value of Rs 50,000 and above against cash payment.
Taking up the black money issue with the Chief Election Commission the CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechuri said his party had already submitted enough evidences of black money usage by the Trinamool and his party had already furnished such evidences to the EC which should act now.
The CPI(M) leader criticized Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, saying the Congress and Trinamool Congress combine were revealing certain data partially in order to influence electorates, which violates the EC’s code of conduct. “ The selective leakage of the data that the Union Home Minister is indulging in , trying to portray the Left Front as aggressor and our opponents as the victims, wheras it is in their own recoprds , their own figures, it can be seen that since the Lok Sabha elections, nearly 380 Left Front workers have killed by the Trinamool and the Maoists, and this data exists with all the required evidences, but on this Home Minister is quiet,” said Yechuri.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Housing Minister Gautam Deb, who already submitted documents and papers in support of his charges of the use of huge amount of black money by the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, met the Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quereshi who paid a visit to Kolkata on April 28 to oversee the poll arrangements.
source-Ganashakti
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