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    Why didn't Advani bring back black money, asks Sonia

    Panaji, Feb 25 (IANS) Questioning Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani's credentials as an anti-corruption crusader, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Saturday asked why he had taken no steps to bring back black money stashed in banks abroad when he was the deputy prime minister.

    "So what was the deputy prime minister doing then? Home minister and deputy prime minister, both posts were with him then. So what was he doing about bringing black money back and about corruption all those long years?" Gandhi said in a direct attack on Advani who held the two posts in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime.

    Advani had done nothing to curb corruption in the "scam ridden government" of which the BJP leader was a part, Gandhi said at a rally here ahead of the March 3 elections to the state legislative assembly.

    The Congress chief said her party-led government was trying to bring back black money and rid the country of corruption in a systematic manner.

    "Of course, we must do everything in our power to bring back black money which is stashed abroad and to rid our system of corruption. But that is precisely what the Congress-led government is doing methodically, doing with sincerity and in earnest," she said.

    Gandhi also said that instead of pointing fingers at the Congress, it would do them (the BJP) well to look at their own scam ridden government, and singled out corruption in the BJP's government in Karnataka as an example.

     
    • vinayak  •  3 months ago
      one day india will repent as we are taking some burning issues very lightly..person sitting at helm of affairs are not bothered for motherland...corruption is deep rooted.. every party evry politician are some how or other doing it freely and to show their brighter side in public.. they just fool nd take citizen on ride
      • r 3 months ago
        true man, but who to blame? Pl look around you and you will be astonished to see everyone, almost everyone around you is corrupt in one way or the other. juming queues in public places, ignoring signals and traffic rules while driving, creating noise around without bothering about others' peace, tomtoming about achieving things through back doors, willing to pay any price to get what we want knowing well that such a thing is illegal, caste based reservations, religion based favours, language based discriminations, gender based arrogance, treating cinema idols as our role models, and a host of such sub standard behaviour embedded in Indian society. we deserve only goondas and urchins as our leaders and netas. white and white is the symbol of dacoity in this country and everyone of us accountable for the ills of this political system. we have made anna hazare run away. why mumbaikars could not sacrifice their salary or earned leave to show their support to him? why they went to work thinking someone else will take care of his protests? shame on all of us.
      • prakash 3 months ago
        Vinayak! very well said!We, common people have become help less and silent seeing the loot in our presence. Constitution framed , amended any no of times to favour the politicians under the pretext of peoples' welfare.
      • leomale c 3 months ago
        there is need to change the political system and Laws framed in favour of politicians and those who run and control
    • leomale c  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      Becoz all the politicians are "ek hi theli ke chatte batte". Even we will see that how much money or land u will carry to hell or heaven with u when u will die". This is true for every person. Sooner he/she understand this better it will be.
      • Gulab Singh 3 months ago
        khali hath aye ho khali hath jawogey
      • leomale c 3 months ago
        A fact " khali hath aye ho khali hath jawogey"
    • Datson  •  3 months ago
      Our politicians are accusing each other instead of taking care of corruption.That why we are supporting Anna cause.Soniaji we know that Advani did not do his job well in corruption issue. Thats why we elected you.But what holding you back now? Instead of accusing the earlier rulers, why dont you start your selves first.You are affraid of opening your IT return public in case of Right to Information Act filed by a citizen.Show your good works in deeds and not in words.
      • mukund 3 months ago
        rightly said friend
      • Sandip 3 months ago
        both are arguing each other but dont doing actual work. Its actually our fault not their. because we are voting them.
    • .Swaminath  •  Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh  •  3 months ago
      Does it mean that if Advani did not bring back the black money Sonia gandhi also will follow his steps ? It is ridiculuous .As an experienced do not thrw the blame on others and enjoy.Rather try to brig back the black money and then show them that what they could n ot do is done by you
    • Kaushal  •  Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh  •  3 months ago
      Really a good question by Sonia to opposition. If Advani didn't bring back black money, why Sonia? Sonia stands for congress. People of India should welcome Sonia for her remarks and people should not ask about black money. She should be promoted and encouraged to send money and other valuable objects from India to her motherland and other countries. We should bent our head to congress and particularly Sonia and Gandhi family otherwise they will amend the constitution.
      Eliminate congress particularly Gandhi family led congress from India other they will eliminate all of us.
    • CK  •  3 months ago
      Ms Gandhi would do a great service to the nation if she could put in words the menthods being adopted by the current Govt to bring back the black money stashed abroad.....Its ironic that when the money was being syphoned out of the nation what the hell the govt was doing....simply...they were party to the process!!
    • Billy D.  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      Where did Soniya go in the month of Aug 2011. Treatment ? What treatment and who had diagonised her to be treated in USA ? She might have visited Swiss banks and routed herself via USA. It is not easy toget the money because the THUGs are international and their funds may also be shifted from one country to another. How would India convince the courts in those countries to direct their banks to part with the loot. That would amount to axing your own feet.
      • Prasanta 3 months ago
        sir,you are right.No medical treatment---------.
        Sonia went to America to trasfer her money from swiss bank to some other bank.
      • Buddha Tera Baap 3 months ago
        It is valid question. The life of a political leader should be transparent. If there is no wrong doing then there is no reason to hide. It was said that she went for some treatment. But after such a prolonged treatment no one can be so energetic to attend so many political rallies on hectic basis. Sonia or Congress should take people in to confidence if they are honest and sincere otherwise people are there to draw their own conclusions and they are not wrong in doing so.
      • KRS 3 months ago
        Oh my god guys , she and her son and may be the family went to swiss first and then in the name of unknown desease treatment went to usa and other places . why ???? why ??? the swiss bank black money issue has become a major question ok . So they must safe guard it in case they loose the future elections . ok why was the fdi forced by the congress and pm and sonia and rahul into india ??? do u know ?? the swiss dough goes its fdi foreign companies and channels into india as personal investment and become white legal money . very sad till now it did not gell . so the money is on the cat and wall.
        as of now. next before their term is over all our ministers will also use the personal govt aircraft and go to swiss and usa . the same channel to safe guard their looted money . Just wait and watch .

        it is sad we have political parties in india for money making and people looting .. Not one political party is of real people service .
        Remember the main purpose of starting a political party in india is to honestly serve the people with no personal benifits. . now a days political parties are made like busiess companies for profit . we fools honour them and vote for them .
        What ever it is this congress now has legalised curruption and open loot with the 2g scam , cwg housing loot and many more . till the past years all political guys were scared of looting and scams . now it is agreed openly . thanks to the congress ..
    • Sureshkant  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      Therefore, BJP is out of Rule, we expect that our Congress Govt. should Bring Back the Black Money from the Foreign with the Names of Account Holders so we will keep you all in the power for life long,,,,,,,
    • Strongman  •  3 months ago
      I weant to ask one question to Madam Sonia Gandhi. Before she asks what Advani has done to bring back black money to India, she ought to be asking the same question to herself and her party. What has been her contribution since 2004 to bring back black money from overseas? She is too scared to accept Anna's Lokpal Bill. She must know that the subject of "Corruption and its Eradication" has of late become a national agenda. It was never an agenda during BJP rule during 1998-2004. Besides during Congress rule from 2004 till date we all have seen record breaking number of mega scams taking place. What rubbish is she talking about? Indian people have never heard before of lakhs of crores of rupees being stashed away in Swiss Bank. All this has come out in the public during UPA/Congress rule.

      Sonia Gandhi would do better by starting to visibly cleaning up political life, and not fool the public by talking about "systematic eradication of corruption". It is not public's job to bring evidence against her. Onus is on her to prove that she does not have black money in Swiss bank. Where from her son-in-law Robert Vadra made thousands of crores of rupees. He made money through 2G scam, he has invested hundreds of crores in Delhi Malls, real estate, in IPL, etc. Where did that money come from? Obviously from mother-in-law. She should have some conscience to finger point at others, when everyone in the country is sure that she is sitting over thousans of crores of black money herself.
    • Heman  •  3 months ago
      Okay agreed BJP did not do anything to bring back black money. But what the F has your party done in the last 8 year?. Your party and Delhi police lathi charged Ramadev and his supporters for demanding to bring back black-money. Is that what your party achieved on black-money front?
      • Siraj 3 months ago
        Ramdev is pucca no 1 fraud dhongi baba who has million of rupees in benami name that is your f
      • Siraj 3 months ago
        Ramdev is no one chor buger third rated loafer doongi baba fraud 420 m f he is
      • Siraj 3 months ago
        RAMDEV CHOR DHOONGI BABA
    • Jagdip Vaishnav  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      It is true that corruption is prevailing in the country since decades, no govt has taken effective steps which could have put india on top position, people could have happy healthy life
      it is not true that it is difficult to bring back unaccounted money back in to our country, then how usa, uk could bring back.govt should have deremination, & good governance.
      Recent corruption case against kripashankar singh [mumbai ]reveals that position of politicians without corruption is like fish out of water..public /tax payers money is being lost
      disheartening is that, almost corruption cases have come out because of cag report, rti act, public iterest litigation, then what govt , concerned agencies are doing?
    • Satish  •  3 months ago
      A classic and most brazenly shameless example of “ Pot Calling Kettle Black “ !!!

      In The Times Of India, Mumbai edition (Tuesday, 1st Nov. 2011), on the page 13, there is a conspicuous news item regarding hidden Swiss bank account, with 2.5 million francs stashed in it, of the late Shri.Rajiv Gandhi, unearthed in 1991.

      Due to a shocking, sudden and dramatic somersault taken by Shri.L.K.Advani recently, and, further, giving a clean chit and even saying sorry to Mrs.Sonia Gandhi and dismantling his own party - BJP launched very worthy team, comprising of Shri.Gurumurthy and other such stalwarts, on the mission of unearthing hidden Swiss bank accounts stashed with ill-gotten public loot, belonging to so called high-profile personalities, while the team was about to unearth and expose the details of the shady Swiss bank accounts held by Mrs.Gandhi.

      Missions by Guru.Ramdev Baba and Shri.Annaji are the utmost need of the hour, if not to neutralize completely the most corrupt to the core, ruthless, brazenly shameless UPA (United Punderers’ Alliance) govt. led by the most wicked & crooked Congress party mafia headed by their most cunning (typical Italian DNA) Italian godmother and her most stupid ‘prince’, at least, to mitigate by educating the masses and creating positive public awareness. Guru.Ramdev Baba and Shri.Annaji, Aap aage badho hum aapke saath hain aur hamesha rahenge !!!! Dil diya hain jaan bhi denge hey watan tere liye !!!!! Jai Hind !!!!!! Jai Ho !!!!!!!!!!!!

      Let us not fall prey and succumb to the mischievous baits maliciously thrown around by the Congress party gangsters with the obvious purpose of breaking the unity among aam-aadmis and scuttle the great dedicated mass-movement at any cost. So, please remember, it is now or never. Let us, therefore, please unite like never before and stand solidly behind Guru.Ramdev Baba and Shri.Annaji and his very worthy team.
    • KRS  •  3 months ago
      Chhhaaaa sonia ji, how can advani bring back your looted swiss bank money ?? you must be having lots of swiss bank accounts , how will advani know all that ?? tell him the secrets and he will bring it back to inida. . only god must save us indians and india
    • Salil Arora  •  3 months ago
      this sonia and her son wilL get get a thumbs down in u.p. elections and will loose miserably..also in national politics her party is loosing ground after all these scams..we must vote this corrupt party out of power..The BJP is nothing as compared to you madam in terms of corruption..
      Its time when we the people of india must start a `QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT,Version 2012`and force this UPA (UNITED PLUNDER ALLIANCE`) out of power...
      BESHARAM CONGRESS ,,
    • Abu mojtaba  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      it;so deplorable when one politician ask the other why he/she did not brink back , godam it who ever and which ever party he /she may be, the Indians want back their money, and want all the politicians behind bars
    • Americai  •  Chennai, Tamil Nadu  •  3 months ago
      ""BLACK MONEY
      Can we as a nation tackle it? Yes. Here comes the Gold-en Recovery PLAN.

      Rather than complaining about darkness, here is one candle. The simplest way to bring in accountability and avoid money laundering in Gold Transactions in India is a simple
      THREE letter answer -“PAN”… the Gold-en Recovery PLAN.
      ... ... The only solution for bringing the black money from the gold /(bullion/precious stones) market to the country’s coffers is insisting that the gold buyer and sellers to produce his / her PAN card and making it mandatory for transactions above Rs.50,000/-. All the Gold dealers in whole sale/retail should provide the source and use of gold account.

      Help Fight Terrorism:

      The Black money which has been evading tax has come recently more into the radar of the leading powers of the world. As the USA and other countries look into funding terrorism, the terrorist are switching from currencies to gold. May be India will set the trend to the world in accounting for gold. This will not only help control black money but also terrorism.

      Hopefully, The high-level Finance Ministry committee on tackling the menace of black money is likely to submit its report in the first week of January, CBDT Chairman M C Joshi will include their much expected January, 2012 report the solution provided here, which to the best my knowledge has not been discussed in public domain.

      (About the author: Americai V. Narayanan is a Certified Public Accountant and served as Treasurer and Vice President of a billion dollar corporation In USA before coming back to India in 1989. He is a member of Congress Party from Tamil Nadu"
    • Mohan  •  Bangalore, Karnataka  •  3 months ago
      He didn't bring BLACK MONEY back to for the very same reason why you and UPA are not bringing it now. You are all smart folks... we are the fools as we pay taxes aptly!
    • Shekharboss  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      Whether it is the Congress or the BJP all are beads of the same rosary as Anna Hazare says repeatedly.I can say with 100 % certainty that all Indian politicians and political parties are traitors,pigs,rapists,chors,dacoits etc. They should all be publicly shot dead.
    • parvathi  •  3 months ago
      Sonia don't talk about Karnataka all the time. Okay what did S M Krishna do when he was chief minister of Karnataka? He looted 17,000 crores against BJP looting 2000 crores . What was your party dping when he was busy looting, collecting money, and hiding in Swiss bank? Which is more 17,000 or 2,000? Sorry I didn't know you were so uneducated to do simple arithmetic. Why do you point fingers at others? Answer your question. By pointing fingers at others you cannot escape. Anna is corrupt, Mayavathi is corrupt, BJP is corrupt, Baba is corrupt blah blah blah. What are you? Satya Harischandra’s daughter? It is high time stop playing with public or else you will meet your late husband’s fate.
    • SN  •  Bangalore, Karnataka  •  3 months ago
      Stop asking questions SONIA. You have no right to ask questions to any one else because we 1.2 billion people are asking you - What good you did till date? Bring back the money you and the dynasty stashed away. Give back all the losses we suferred during 60 years of rule with zero accountability. Get out of this nation with just what you brought with you when you landed first.
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