Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reiterated that information on black money accounts would be made public after following the legal process, the Congress accused the former of misleading people during elections to win votes.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi asked the Government to disclose “55,000 names” of black money offenders as promised by the BJP during the Lok Sabha poll campaign. “It is wrong for any political party to try to fool the people by taking credit for anything. You promised to disclose the names of some 55,000 account-holders some nine months during the election campaign. Even 55 has not come in five months. What you have done today is entirely on yesterday’s court order,” Singhvi said.

However, BJP Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters the Government was making all possible efforts to bring black money back into the country.

\He said the Government has not bowed to the pressure from the Supreme Court. “There is a legal process and the Government is working strongly in that direction,” Naqvi said, adding that it was cooperating with the special investigation team. “This has resulted in disclosure of some things one after another. The Government respects whatever the court has said and whatever the information the Government had, it has given,” he added.

‘Following UPA Govt’

The CPI (M) said the Narendra Modi Government was following in the footsteps of the Manmohan Singh Government on the issue. “The Supreme Court’s intervention is welcome. It was after the apex court’s intervention that the SIT and probe was set up. The Modi Government is behaving exactly like the Manmohan Singh Government. BJP’s stand on this issue during the election campaign has proved to be a hollow rhetoric,” CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said.

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