New Delhi:Two days after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s statement that revelation of names of those holding Black Money will embarrass the Congress, party leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said disclosing names will embarrass the individual concerned and not the Congress party.
“Congress will not be embarrassed if a ‘big name’ is on black money list.’Whatever name is there will embarrass the individual. The party won’t be. These are individual transgressions. “One cannot link Congress to individual leaders with Swiss accounts,” Mr Chidambaram said
Mr Chidambaram’s statement comes two days after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley warned that the Congress will confront ’embarrassment’ as ‘a big name’ from the party is on the list of Indians who hold illicit foreign bank accounts.
Terming the comment by Mr Jaitley as an example of ‘blackmail’, Mr Chidambaram said,”the purpose of Mr Jaitley’s comment was to move from black money to black mail. Just release the name.” Earlier, reacting to Mr Jaitley’s comments, Congress leaders Ajay Maken said the government must come out with the names in the list and must steer clear of vindictiveness and ‘selective leakage’ of names.
The Congress has been charging the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of misleading the nation on the issue of Black Money and making a u-turn on the issue after the Lok Sabha elections. (UNI)
