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NEW DELHI — The Congress party, India’s main opposition political group, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Thursday of stifling democracy and crippling the party by freezing its bank accounts in a tax dispute ahead of national elections.India has announced that a six-week-long general election will start April 19, with most polls predicting a victory for Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.
The BJP rejected the allegations, saying the Congress party’s bank accounts were partially frozen because it had failed to file an income tax return for cash donations it received in 2017-18 and had therefore lost the tax exemption available to political parties.Donations Congress party treasurer Ajay Maken said in a statement that the party had received 1.9 billion rupees in donations in 2017-18. He said income tax authorities imposed a 2.1 billion rupee lien on Feb.
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