Congress on Thursday slammed the government for removing the tax exemption status from the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) saying the think tank was being treated as a “deemed political threat” by the BJP government.
“The ‘thought’ is killed first, the ‘democracy’ is next in line… Centre for Policy Research (CPR) is treated as a ‘deemed political threat’ by the Modi government, while it is a bubbling set of ideas and research on policy of various hues. Time to speak up,” Congress General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala in a tweet said.
The CPR lost its tax exemption nearly four months after its license for receiving foreign donations was revoked by the Income Tax department.
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