Not rattled by raids, will come clean: Kamal Nath
His son Nakul, who is contesting as a Congress candidate from Chhindwara LS constituency vacated by his father, also filed nomination for the seat.
Bhopal: Terming recent raids by the income-tax (I-T) sleuths on houses of his close aides as a move by the BJP leadership to put pressure on him ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday said he would not yield to it at any cost.
“In my four-decade-long political career, I have encountered many such pressures tactics (by rivals). But, I have never yielded to them. I dare the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to scare me”, the chief minister said while addressing an election rally at Chhindwara where he filed nomination for Chhindwara Assembly seat, by-elections to which were scheduled to be held along with four phase Lok Sabha elections on April 29.
His son Nakul, who is contesting as a Congress candidate from Chhindwara LS constituency vacated by his father, also filed nomination for the seat.
Mr Nath described the I-T raids on his two officers on special duty — Pravin Kakkad and Rajendra Kumar Miglani — as “political vendetta” carried out by BJP leadership and asserted, “I will come out clean.”
The person from whose possession huge cashes were said to have been recovered by IT people has already admitted that he was a BJP man, he said, adding that ultimately the truth would come out.