Senior Supreme Court lawyer and Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani on Sunday, for his failure to bring back black money hoarded abroad said that he had become a victim of fraud by playing right into the hands of Narendra Modi and Arun Jaitley.
Jaitmalani ‘atoning’ for prompting Narendra Modi as the leader of the country before Lok Sabha polls said, “I thought that God has sent him as his ‘Aulia’ (representative) for India’s salvation. How I became the victim of fraud.”
Holding P Chidambaram and Arun Jaitley responsible for failure to disclose names of persons holding the black money, Jaitmalani said that both UPA and Modi government at the centre did nothing to bring black money from foreign tax havens.
“Both P Chidambaram and Arun Jaitley should be first arrested and prosecuted if we really want to bring back black money. Jaitley took recourse under the garb of ‘Double Avoidance Tax Treaty (DATT),” he alleged.
The veteran lawyer was in Patna to fight for the cause of army personnel’s demand for “One Rank One Pension”.
He said that with a rider that there should be a written request from Indian government, German government was ready to part with the information with Indian government free of cost with names of 1,400 people who have stashed their money in tax havens abroad.
“I wrote a two-line letter to BJP leaders and none of them signed the letter,” he said, adding that as per a BJP task force committee, Rs 90 lakh crore, are lying in tax havens.”
On RSS view on reviewing the reservation system, Jethmalani said, “this was not the time to talk about it and this can be influenced by constitutional amendment only and not on the directive of the RSS.”