I-T Raids on DK Shivakumar: Congress Randeep Surjewala Hits Out At BJP

TV9 News: I-T Raids on DK Shivakumar: Congress Randeep Surjewala Hits Out At BJP..., ► Download TV9 Kannada Android App: https://goo.gl/OM6nPA ► Subscribe to Tv9 Kannada:    / tv9kannada   ► Circle us on G+: https://plus.google.com/+tv9kannada ► Like us on Facebook:  / tv9kannada   ► Follow us on Twitter:   / tv9kannada   ► Follow us on Pinterest:  / tv9karnataka   Tax officials raided on Wednesday multiple properties linked to DK Shivakumar, a top minister in Karnataka who is hosting party legislators from Gujarat to avoid a break in their ranks ahead of a close Rajya Sabha election. Officials raided 39 places linked to power minister Shivakumar, allegedly recovering Rs7.5 crore in cash, most of it from his Delhi home, as well as several documents. The move triggered an angry response from the Congress, which accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of carrying out “an unprecedented witch-hunt”. Party leaders noisily protested in Parliament later in the day, forcing multiple adjournments in the Rajya Sabha. The Congress has accused the BJP of using “money and muscle power” to engineer defections among its legislators in Gujarat, where senior party leader Ahmed Patel is seeking re-election to the Rajya Sabha, on August 8. Last week, the Congress flew 42 legislators to a resort on the outskirts of the capital of Karnataka, where the party is in power, to keep the flock together. Six of its legislators have quit the party and three of them crossed over to the BJP. More defections can jeopardise Patel’s chances of re-election. But the government said the ‘Eagleton – The Golf Village’, where the Gujarat legislators were camping, had not been raided. Finance minister Arun Jaitley told Parliament that only Shivakumar, who was trying to “hide behind the cover” of the lawmakers at the resort, had been questioned.