Black money case: Has Govt. been able to bring back even Rs.55 after five months, asks Singhvi

Congress leader and spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi slammed the BJP-led NDA Government here on Wednesday for its failure to recover black money stashed away in banks abroad five months after promising to do so.

"If you (BJP) have carried out a political campaign day-in and day-out for nine months, saying we will give 55,000 bank accounts of so many thousand crores. We are asking have you been able to bring Rs.55 back after five months?" asked Singhvi.

"We have made our stand clear. The rest is now a legal process. The only political question which we are asking is the question of accountability," he told ANI here.

The central government has submitted the names of 627 illegal foreign bank account holders to the Supreme Court today. On Tuesday, the apex court had asked the government to release all the names of the people who have stashed away black money in bank accounts abroad.

This order came after the government had released the names of only three account holders on Monday.

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Pinky Anand had told ANI the government will file the names of all the people who have black money and who have accounts before the Supreme Court today in a sealed cover envelope but they will be kept confidential before the Supreme Court.

CPI leader Atul Anjan, meanwhile, said the government won't be able to hide any names now after the Supreme Court's rap.

"Before becoming the PM, Narendra Modi had promised to bring back black money. But now they are following the Congress party's path. The Supreme Court has rapped the centre government so badly, that the government will not try to hide the black money account holders' names anymore," said Anjan.