Buddhadeb wants black money be brought back to India

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee today demanded that UPA government take steps to bring back black money stashed in foreign banks and make public details of the account holders.

"These ill-gotten money stashed in foreign banks should be brought back to India and details of the account holders must be made public," he told a Left Front rally here.

The money belonged to people and it must be confiscated, he said.

Targetting Congress, he wondered what was preventing the party from taking action. "Why is Congress sitting tight over the issue? What they are afraid of?" he said.

"Black and white money are all in equal circulation. The country's money has been plundered and stashed in foreign banks," he said.