Pranab loses cool in Parliament

Fri, 25 February 2011

11:55

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee drops a bomb in Parliament saying there has been an income tax raid on a CPM leader, but he cannot divulge names.

Pranab was talking about black money and reiterated that names cannot be disclosed till the court hauls up black money hoarders. Pranab loses his cool over a question on India's biggest tax offender Hasan Ali, when the opposition benches refuse to let him speak.

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