New Delhi: Raising her voice over the din and chorus in Parliament, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj made a valiant attempt to defend her move to “surreptitiously” help controversial former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi by taking the fight directly to the door of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Claiming she had committed “no mistake” in facilitating travel papers for “fugitive” Mr Lalit Modi, she launched a strident and vitriolic attack on the Congress chief.
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Looking at party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, Mrs Gandhi’s son, Ms Swaraj lashed out, “He should go through the ‘black deeds’ and ask his mamma as to ‘how much money had been taken from Quattrocchi’ and ‘why did daddy (Rajiv Gandhi) get released the killer of 15,000 people (in Bhopal gas leak)’,” an apparent reference to Anderson.
Ms Swaraj’s remarks riled the Congress benches, and its members were up on their feet, shouting slogans. The much-awaited debate on the Lalit Modi issue was conducted amid shouting by both the Congress and the Treasury benches in the Lok Sabha. Finance minister Arun Jaitley ridiculed the Congress-led Opposition and dismissed all allegations.
