<p class="title">Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday indirectly expressed displeasure over the way in which the Income Tax (I-T) department was being handled by the Central government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to Siddhartha’s letter indicating harassment from I-T sleuths, Gowda said, “You analyse about nature of I-T raids.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Everybody knows how different institutions are functioning in the country. Bureaucrats work as per orders from the top. I-T sleuths raided 59 locations when Mandya went to polls recently,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gowda said that he met Krishna and consoled him. There was no need for Siddharth to be afraid of anybody. He knew Siddarth for the last 35 years. He was a talented entrepreneur, the former prime minister said.</p>
<p class="title">Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday indirectly expressed displeasure over the way in which the Income Tax (I-T) department was being handled by the Central government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to Siddhartha’s letter indicating harassment from I-T sleuths, Gowda said, “You analyse about nature of I-T raids.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Everybody knows how different institutions are functioning in the country. Bureaucrats work as per orders from the top. I-T sleuths raided 59 locations when Mandya went to polls recently,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gowda said that he met Krishna and consoled him. There was no need for Siddharth to be afraid of anybody. He knew Siddarth for the last 35 years. He was a talented entrepreneur, the former prime minister said.</p>