Rajya Sabha Member and noted jurist Ram Jethmalani has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not being honest about bringing back black money stashed abroad.

He said in a recent letter to Mr. Modi that he had won the 2014 election “mainly and almost certainly on the promise to the people of bringing back 90 lakh crores of black money.”

Mr. Jethmalani, who announced his retirement from active legal service last week, said the Prime Minister was no help in his fight against black money. “The awful truth dawned on me in early 2015 when BJP president Amit Shah disclosed that all talk about black money recovery was a ‘chunavi jhumla,’ a gimmick or a joke,” he said.

Mr. Jethmalani said that soon after he announced his support for Mr. Modi as Prime Minister in 2012, his rivals started working on his expulsion from the BJP. However, some time thereafter, both L.K. Advani and Nitin Gadkari met him and agreed to withdraw his proposed expulsion, he said. “It was even announced by them in the newspapers. The news was not contradicted by anyone.” However, when he was abroad on holiday, he was expelled from the party. This was illegal, and he would carry on the legal fight against the party to its logical end, he said.