Rs.350 cr seizure: BJP dares BJD to recommend SIT probe on black money
Deccan ChronicleBHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party, the main opposition party in Odisha, on Friday questioned the “mysterious silence” of the state’s ruling Biju Janata Dal on the recovery of Rs 350 crore during Income Tax raids on liquor traders in Bolangir, Bouth and Sambalpur districts. It dared Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to come clean on the matter by ordering a probe by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team on Black Money. “If the Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik believes he is clean, he must write a letter to Justice the Special Investigation Team on Black Money, seeking a probe into the recovery of such huge amounts of money,” said BJP spokesperson Manoj Mahapatra. We dare the CM to write a letter to the SIT on Black Money, requesting the body for an investigation into the hoarding of such huge sums of cash by the liquor traders.