Advani demands white paper on black money

B D Narayankar

Press Trust of India

Udupi (Karnataka), Oct 31: Training his guns at Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh for 'failure' to bring back black
money stashed away abroad, senior BJP leader L K Advani today
demanded that the government table a white paper on the issue
in the coming winter session of Parliament.
Addressing a public rally here as part of his Jan Chetna
Yatra, he said Singh had failed to keep up his promise of
bringing back Rs 25 lakh crore black money to India within 100
days after the UPA came to power for the second time in 2009.
"As many as 700 days have passed and yet there are no
signs of UPA bringing back Rs 25 lakh crore back to India.
Therefore, I demand Manmohan Singh to come out with white
paper on black money in the coming winter session," he said.
Advani said Singh should explain to the nation steps taken
by his government to bring back the black money.
He also demanded that the UPA Government take recourse to
the provisions of Restitution of Illicit Assets Act, 2011
passed by the Swiss Government. "I demand that the Central
Government should bring back black money as it is being done
by America and Germany," he said.
Advani asked the government to reveal the names of the
people who had illegally parked black money in Swiss banks.
He also pressed for a Supreme Court monitored CBI probe
against Congress ministers and leaders in the 2G scam.
He rued that the Congress had not taken any action against
its ministers but compelled ministers belonging to its allies
and leaders to resign from their posts.
Moreover, action was taken against the corrupt ministers
only after the intervention of Supreme Court, Advani said.