Opposition rages in Income Tax department raids against Taapsee Pannu and Anurag Kashyap, from Tejashwi Yadav to Prashant Bhushan
New Delhi On Wednesday, actress Taapsee Pannu, producer-director Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl have been very difficult. Income tax department raided their house. The raids were made on Anurag’s film production company Phantom Films over allegations of tax evasion. Several teams from the Income Tax Department raided around 30 locations in Mumbai and Pune. At the same time, Tapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl are giving their reactions from general to special on this raid of Income Tax Department.
Not only this, many politicians and opposition parties in the country have called the Income Tax Department’s raids against Tapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl in retaliation. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has criticized the Income Tax Department. He wrote in his tweet, ‘He (Sarkar) first raided IT, CBI, ED on outspoken and honest political rivals for killing his character. Now the Nazi government is chasing social workers, journalists and artists. Blasphemous act! ‘
At the same time, Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP and leader Priyanka Chaturvedi has also criticized this action against the artists. He wrote on his official Twitter account, ‘Hopefully the income tax department of our country will be saved from the situation of bonded slavery soon. The same is expected for the ED and the CBI. ‘
Renowned lawyer Prashant Bhushan wrote in his tweet, ‘Anurag Kashyap and Taapsee Pannu made one or two tweets against the government from their Twitter account that the Income Tax Department had reached to see their account! Income Tax, Enforcement Department, NIA and Police are the A team of this government ‘.
Congress Party national spokesperson Dr. Shama Mohammed has also expressed his anger over the raid of the Income Tax Department. He wrote in his tweet, ‘It is clear what the BJP government is doing by raiding Anurag Kashyap and Taapsee Pannu. Earlier NCB cracked down on Deepika Padukone, as Deepika speaks in support of JNU students. But when BJP leader Pamela Goswami is caught with 100 grams of cocaine, the NCB is silent. ‘
Apart from these, other politicians and opposition parties have criticized the Income Tax department’s raids against Taapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl. According to news agency PTI, apart from these filmmakers, the Income Tax department also raided Talent Management Company Quan and Reliance Entertainment Group CEO Shivashish Sarkar. Transactions between them were on the income tax department’s radar and conducted raids with the aim of collecting evidence on charges of tax evasion.
