Did BJP once favoured inheritance tax idea? Congress shares deleted tweet

Did BJP leader Amit Malviya and MP Jayant Sinha once favoured the idea of inheritance tax – which is now a matter of blame game between the Congress and the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024? 

Congress leaders took to social media on Wednesday to share a screenshot of a "deleted" tweet posted by in 2014. The now-deleted tweet read: "I am all for 's idea to tax inheritance wealth."

Inheritance tax, also known as estate taxbefore it is distributed to their legal heirs

As per the screenshot, Malviya had made the post on X in 2014 — when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had ousted the Congress and

His tweet now resurfaced amid controversy over chairman of Indian Overseas Congress.

Congress leader Pawan Khera posted screenshots of Malviya's post and said, "Meanwhile Amit Malviya regretting why he didn’t delete his past tweets...".

In a series of tweets, Malviya had supposedly contended back in 2014 that the idea of inheritance tax was "just an idea, which is open for debate". In another screenshot, he posted, “It's not a decision, just an idea."

Meanwhile, Telangana Congress spokesperson Asma also the screenshot, saying, “BJP culprit unsuccessfully tried to erase the evidence. (sic)"

Sam Pitroda, the chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress, stirred a row by calling inheritance tax law in the US "an interesting law". He later.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh alleged on Wednesday that it was the "Modi Sarkar" which wanted to introduce Inheritance Tax in 2014. " that he wanted to introduce Inheritance Tax in 2014," Ramesh states in one of the four "facts" he shared on X on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, BJP's Amit Malviya said it was who had "proposed the horrendous idea of imposing Inheritance Tax" in 2012.

An published in FirstP