Black money issue: Protest held outside Arun Jaitley's residence

Members of the Aam Aadmi Sena held a protest outside the residence of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley here on Sunday, urging him to disclose the names of foreign bank account holders.

"The whole country wants to know the names of the 800 people who have kept Rs 4,00,000 crore in the Swiss Banks. It is the money of the poor people. Central government should disclose the names of those 800 people," a protester told ANI.

"I want to tell Narendra Modi ji that you have received the public's mandate and people voted for you. Please tell us the names of these 800 people. All these people should go to jails and the money should go to the poor," he added.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had earlier rubbished allegations by opposition parties that BJP was reluctant in revealing names of people having black money stashed abroad and said that Congress party would be embarrassed if names of people having accounts abroad were released.

The Centre had last week told the Supreme Court that it cannot disclose the names of all those having black money stashed abroad as it violated the double taxation avoidance agreement.