NCP chief Sharad Pawar receives income tax notice; calls it a 'love letter'

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 1

A day after the fall of the MVA government in Maharashtra, the Mumbai unit of the Income Tax Department has served a notice on NCP chief Sharad Pawar following the scrutiny of the leader’s poll affidavits he filed with the Election Commission in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2020.

The NCP chief, while confirming about the notice served on him, in a tweet in Marathi said he termed the move by the IT department a “love letter”. He said, “I have received a love letter, a love letter from the income tax relating to poll affidavits filed in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2020.”

In a dig at the BJP-ruled Union government, Pawar, in a follow-up tweet, said the agency is “gathering information on certain people”.

In another sarcastic tweet in Marathi, the veteran leader said, “There has been a qualitative increase in the efficiency of this department. Focusing on gathering information for so many years, and gathering information on certain people, seems to be a strategic shift.”

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