Now Congress Assures to bring back Swiss Money

‘UPA to bring back black money’
Attar Singh
Tribune News Service

Patiala, April 30
Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma here today said the Congress- led UPA government would bring back black money stacked in Swiss banks and this money would be utilised for development works.

Sharma said if the Congress was voted to power, the new government would follow up the matter with the Swiss authorities for getting back the money deposited in the banks there.

He said India had agreements with 70 governments of different countries with regard to the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act. He said the matter of bringing back the money from the Swiss banks would not be much of a problem.

Anand Sharma, who also holds the portfolio of Information and Broadcasting Ministry, said the UPA government had generated revenue worth Rs 1.93 lakh crore whereas the Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA government had generated revenue only Rs 80,000 crore revenue in five years.

Anand Sharma accused the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance government in Punjab of not utilising funds provided by the Union government.

Sharma said Punjab government had not implemented the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme which provided for 100 days of guaranteed employment in one year to an individual. Punjab lagged in this field and it had not implemented the scheme so far, he added.

He also lamented Rs 1750 crore for Gurta Gadi Divas celebrations which were released by the Central government had not been spend by Punjab government.

He said India was alive to the developments in the neighbouring countries and it was well prepared to face any threat from any terrorist outfit. It would not be proper to go into details of terrorist threat perception at this platform.

Well, well, well.
The Congress has started repeating the call given by Advani.
Isn't it surprising that the Congress should proclaim that it will bring back the money just after giving a clean chit to Qattorachi on the Bofors money.
It makes me laugh.
All these political parties loudly claiming that they will bring back our money.
Do you believe them?
And Mani Shankar Aiyar says there is no such money.
Whom do we believe?
Radheshyam