BJP misusing state machinery to malign name of BSP party: Mayawati

New Delhi: BJP is misusingg the state machinery to malign the name of BSP party, said BSP Chief Mayawati on Tuesday in a press conference in state capital Lucknow. "We have deposited the money collected as party funds honestly in the bank account, no wrongdoings", Mayawati clarified. Why Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not scrutinising his own party, she questioned. BJP must give details of its funds, she said. Referring about her brother she alleged that inquiry against him is also part of a conspiracy. "I want to say that my brother who earns living by doing a small business also deposited money in bank account as per IT norms", said Mayawati. On Tuesday, ED detected cash deposits totalling over Rs.104 crore in an account belonging to the BSP and Rs 1.43 crore in an account belonging to party Supremo Mayawati’s brother Anand in a branch of United Bank of India here, sources in the Enforcement Directorate said. Officials said the agency, Enforcement Directorate, as part of its routine survey and enquiry operations to check suspicious and huge cash deposits in banks, today visited the Karol Bagh branch of the UBI and found huge deposits made in these two accounts post-demonetisation. Attempts to elicit a response from BSP on the issue failed. They said the sleuths called for the records of the deposits made in the BSP account and found that while Rs 102 crore was deposited in Rs 1,000 notes, the rest Rs 3 crore was deposited in the old Rs 500 notes. Officials said they were were astonished to find huge cash of about Rs 15-17 crore being desposited every other day.