UPA delayed black money SIT to save somebody: Modi

NEW DELHI: Targeting the previous UPA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said it had not formed SIT on black money despite the Supreme Court’s order of 2011 because there was an attempt to “save somebody”. In the same breath, he rejected suggestions that his dispensation is threatening the opposition on the issue.
“I believe that the dream of bringing back black money would have been possible by now had an SIT been formed in 2011 when the Supreme Court had asked for it.That time the SIT was not formed because there was an attempt to save somebody,” said Modi while replying to a debate on motion of thanks to the President’s address in Rajya Sabha.
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He also rejected the Congress leader Anand Sharma's charge that the government is threatening the opposition in the name of revealing the names of those having black money stashed abroad. The Prime Minister said he does not hold such a mindset.
Turning the tables on Congress, Modi reminded how threats were used against opposition leaders during the Emergency. “Everybody knows who has the character and language of intimidation. Everybody knows what excesses were committed during the Emergency. What can be a bigger threat than this?” he countered, targeting Congress.
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Recalling how threats of sending him to jail were issued when he was chief minister of Gujarat, Modi said, “Nobody's threats work. Threats have neither worked in a democracy nor will they ever work. For 14 years in Gujarat, I used to get letters, threats of sending me to jail every day. I knew what games were being played.”
He said he would not like to say anything more on this as he believed that this will come out some day when the history is written.