Pointing to the recovery of Rs 65,000 crore under the income declaration scheme and its ‘success’ under the Modi-Government, BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday said the BJP dispensation has fulfilled its twin promises of providing corruption-free Government and unearthing black money which he said marked the beginning of ‘Bharat Uday’.
“In the history of Independent India, no Government has been able to recover black money to such an extent,” he said in a statement referring to Rs 65,250 crore disclosure claimed to have been made under the scheme and added, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a short span of time has been able to fulfill his promises of providing corruption-free Government and recovering black money,” said the BJP chief.
“This is an unprecedented victory of the Modi Government over black money,” Shah said.
Claiming that the Government has recovered over Rs 1.40 lakh crore of black money and other undisclosed assets in India and abroad during the two-and-a-half years that it has been in power, he said the latest recovery marks the beginning of “Bharat Uday” (India rising) as this money will be spent on the development of villages, the poor, farmers and the youth.
Shah said the “transparent and corruption-free” auction of coal blocks and the Government’s efforts to plug gaps in subsidy transfer to claim that now nobody can cast an “evil eye” on the country’s treasury.
Besides the Rs 65,250 crore money disclosed under the Income Declaration Scheme-2016, the Government has recovered Rs 56,378 crore of undisclosed earnings in the Income Tax department’s search and survey drive and seized Rs 1,986 crore cash too, Shah said as he cited other recoveries to say that the total money recovered has been Rs 1.40 lakh crore.