I-T sleuths raid Cong leader Atmananda’s house in Mandya
Bengaluru, Apr 3: Intensifying its searches in Mandya ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Income Tax department Wednesday raided the house of a Congress leader M S Atmananda.
The raids were carried out during noon with the help of CRPF jawans, I-T sources said.
Details would be provided once the searches concluded, they said.
A week ago, income tax sleuths had raided multiple locations in Bengaluru, Mandya, Ramanagar, Mysuru, Hassan and Shimoga, triggering angry reaction from the ruling Congress and the JD(S).
A day prior to the searches, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy had said early morning raids on Congress and theJD(S) leaders were in the offing with the help of CRPF Jawans.
The next morning saw I-T sleuths raiding many places.
The Congress and the JD(S) leaders later staged a demonstration outside the I-T office on March 28.
The ruling alliance alleged that the raids were carried out on JD(S) leaders overseeing the elections of Kumaraswamy's son, Nikhil, in Mandya and nephew Prajwal Revanna in Hassan.
Strongly defending its action, the I-T department had said its activities should not be politicised, personalised or trivialised.
Karnataka will go to polls in two phases, 14 constituencies each, on April 18 and 23.
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Trump tells Fox News he's no longer sending Witkoff, Kushner to Pakistan for Iran talks
Islamabad (AP): President Donald Trump says he told top US envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, telling Fox News that "they can call us anytime they want.”
In a brief phone interview Saturday, Trump told Fox News that he told US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner “you're not going to be making any more 18 hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.”
Trump also said of the US side “we have all the cards.”
His comments came after the White House said Friday that Witkoff and Kushner would be heading to Pakistan for another round of negotiations with Iran.
