New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government and top BJP leaders seem to be running out of explanations as the Lalit Modi mess keeps shifting from one minister to another.
External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, who had it easy for the past few weeks as the entire focus moved to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, found herself under fire yet again on Wednesday as documents emerged showing that “fugitive” former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi had offered her husband Swaraj Kaushal the post of alternate director in his company Indofil.
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This offer, some television channels reported, was made in April this year, months after Ms Swaraj helped Mr Lalit Modi to get urgent travel documents from the UK.
While Mr Kaushal claimed he “never took up the offer”, the Congress-led Opposition retorted that “acceptance is not the issue, but that the offer was made establishes the nexus between the minister and Lalit Modi”.
