BJP Demands Election Commission Probe for Funds Received by TMC

On Thursday, the Bharatiya Janatha Party went to the Election Commission for getting the view of probe into the view which was received from the donors of the party, Trinamool Congress.

The Party’s National Secretary Siddharth Nath Singh said, “Every political party is required to submit an account of its revenues and expenditures to the EC. TMC too has submitted its account to the EC. The largest donation it has received is of Rs. 1.40 crore. It has given that in declaration.” “The audit report and the balance sheet of the company (which donated the money) show that in 2011, its revenue was just Rs. 19,000, in 2012 it was Rs. 16,000 and Rs. 33,000 in 2013-14,” he said.

“According to the Company’s Act, you can donate only 5 per cent of the total revenue. So if your revenue is so small, how can you donate Rs. 1.40 crore? And nowhere in the balance sheet (of the company) the donation is mentioned,” he stated. Singh said, “The BJP would approach the EC and request it to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter.”

The Singh also scorned the Bengal Global Business conference, proclaiming, “It should have been named ‘Central Aid Summit’ as most of the investments as the state government claimed to have received were from the Central government organisations.” “The Chief Minister claimed that the state has received investments worth Rs. 93,000 crore. Out of this, Rs. 78,700 crore has come from the Central government and its enterprises,” he proclaimed. He said, “The term global summit was a misnomer as no investment had come from any part of the globe.”

The opposition leader of the state assembly, Surya Kanta Mishra of CPI-M challenged the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s assert that the business meeting was a victory and supposed that she had forced the Tata family to depart the Singur project. “Now they want the manufacturing sector to come to Bengal. All projects, barring one, had been planned during the Left Front regime. Nothing has happened since then,” Mishra claimed. “Investors will not come to the state as long as she is there,” he added.