Ahmadabad District Cooperative Bank has netted the highest deposits among such co-op banks of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes during demonetization according to RTI replies received by a Mumbai activist, reports IANS.
The news item acquired prominence as BJP President Amit Shah is on its Board. The Bank is chaired by Shah’s close aide Ajay H Patel.
In fact, congress party has been training its guns on the bank for the last two years with former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan accusing Amit Shah of being part of the nexus which ensured huge deposits of notes.
BJP Spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad had earlier threatened to sue Congress for dragging the name of BJP President in unsubstantiated charges.
Congress had demanded a white paper and also a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the deposits. It also demanded that the Gujarat government release footage of the CDs of the CCTV cameras installed at the Ashram Road Branch, “the headquarters-branch of the Ahmedabad District Cooperative bank”.