Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday demanded the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lalit Modi debate in Lok Sabha and also to bring back Rs 1,365 crore involved in the case to the country.
While participating in the debate on the controversy, he said instead of allowing external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to give a personal explanation in this episode, the Prime Minister should stand on the floor of the House and announce that he had confidence on the sincerity of his Cabinet colleague.
Appreciating Ms Swaraj, Mr Owaisi said her party had never given credit to her for her impeccable performance in Lok Sabha as Leader of Opposition from 2009 to 2014. Pointing out why her party left her alone when she was facing criticism in the controversy, Mr Owaisi said, ‘Madam “Ghar ka Bhedi Lanka Dhaye’ (the house member ruins his own house), find out the secret agenda behind it.”
Terming the IPL as Indian Political League, he said as long as this IPL was in existence, everything would be ruined in the country. He questioned the inaction of the government in apprehending a person escaped to Pakistan after siphoning off Rs 20 crore in the Rs 120 crore scam of the Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association.
Maintaining that Dalits and Muslims were deprived of passports for their involvement even a simple “hurt” cases, he said instead those who violated RBI and FDI guidelines and IT laws easily got passports. He said that the Prime Minister respond on the entire controversy and also to explain the steps being taken to bring back the money involved in the IPL scam.
