Arjun Jaitley on Madhya Pradesh I-T raids: ‘Legitimate action against corruption is not vendetta’ 

Arun Jaitley.

While stating that revenue department’s action of carrying out search operations is objective, finance minister Arun Jaitley, on Wednesday, said “legitimate action” against corruption is not “vendetta”.

In a reference to the income-tax department’s recent searches on premises of relatives of Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath, on charges of suspicious movement of unaccounted money, Jaitley, in a Facebook post, said, “It has become a routine practice to call any action against corruption as political vendetta. Claim of vendetta has never been a legitimate defence in corruption. Those who commit such large acts of corruption have to be judged on the merits of the action itself.”

Here is Arun Jaitley’s full Facebook post on this:

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