Will communicate after IT searches recover from: Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday mentioned he’ll communicate in regards to the Earnings Tax division’s raids on the properties of his family and aides as soon as the motion is over. He didn’t need to hinder the I-T division’s work, he informed reporters right here.

“The division is doing its job. The officers are nonetheless there. As soon as they go away, I’ll subject my assertion. By talking whereas the searches are on, I don’t need to hinder their work,” mentioned the senior NCP chief. He additionally appealed the NCP employees who had gathered outdoors the Council Corridor right here to precise help for him to depart, Pawar added.

“Let I-T officers go away and I’ll reply all questions. I’ve solutions to your questions,” mentioned Pawar, who holds finance portfolio within the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress authorities. “My stand is at all times clear and clear. I’m disciplined about monetary issues. I at all times enchantment folks to pay their taxes….tax ought to be paid by everybody together with me and the companies linked to me,” he mentioned. He can even communicate in regards to the controversial sale of defunct cooperative sugar mills within the state by offering proof, Pawar mentioned.

Earlier within the day, NCP president Sharad Pawar had alleged that the Earnings Tax raids got here after he in contrast the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in Uttar Pradesh to the Jallianwala Bagh bloodbath. “The I-T raids have been carried out as a result of I likened the Lakhimpur Kheri violence to Jallianwala Bagh bloodbath…Do not we have now the best to air our views in democracy?” requested the senior chief who’s Ajit Pawar’s uncle.

The I-T division on Thursday raided some companies linked to relations of Ajit Pawar and a few actual property builders on expenses of tax evasion. The premises linked to enterprise teams equivalent to DB Realty, Shivalik, Jarandeshwar Sahkari Sugar Karkhana (Jarandeshwar SSK) and companies linked to Ajit Pawar’s sisters have been raided in the course of the operation, official sources had mentioned.