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| J&K BJP leaders make mockery of PM Modi’s ‘cashless economy campaign’ | | Spend lakhs to publicize PM’s Vijapur rally, make all payments in cash! | |
ET Report
Jammu, Feb 1: BJP leaders in Jammu and Kashmir seem unaware about Prime Minister’s “digital India” and “cashless economy” campaign as they still prefer to make payments through cash.
Sources alleged that these leaders have spent huge money, which they had ostensibly earned through other means, to ensure that people attend the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally at Vijaypur on Sunday. In connection with the rally BJP leaders have installed hoarding and banners in Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Udhampur, Rajouri and Reasi districts. These hoardings have been installed at different places to woo the voters for the upcoming Legislative Assembly and Parliamentary elections with the appeals that they should attend PM’s rally.
Credible sources said that BJP leaders have spent lakhs for their own publicity but payments have been made in through cash instead of cheque, net-banking or through credit cards. “If they would have made the payment through the digital means they could have landed up in trouble as all the money would have become white and then they would have been left with no other option other than to declare the source of money. That’s why they are making the payments in cash,” the source added.
They alleged that “majority of the ex-BJP ministers had made huge money during their tenure as ministers in the previous PDP-BJP regime. But they were not in position to utilize this amount through legal means. Now elections are approaching and it has provided them with a chance to spend what they have earned,” sources added.
An analyst while talking to Early Times since the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken the reins of the country India has gone digital and most of the people are using plastic money. “Even the demonetization was aimed at wiping the black money out from the system.”
He said that the state BJP leaders have made a mockery of PM Modi’s “cashless campaign” by spending lakhs just on the publicity material and they would be spending more in coming days to ensure that they win the polls and capture the power again. “The campaigns to curb the black money seem confined to common people only and politicians, especially in Jammu region, don’t fall in its ambit so they can spend as much as they want. No one would question them,” the analyst ridiculed.
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