New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- Accusing the BJP-led government of being "autocratic" and trying to capture democracy through "extortion and financial terrorism", Congress on Thursday said that the banks were forced to transfer about Rs 65.89 crore from the party's bank deposits even as Income Tax Appellate Tribunal had put a lien.

Party leaders KC Venugopal, Ajay Maken and Jairam Ramesh held a joint press conference and said the government move was the biggest example of the "social and political injustice" taking place in the country.

Maken said the Modi government was rattled by the strictures from the Supreme Court over the electoral bonds scheme.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that the Modi Government wants to steal the hard-...