Feisty Sushma guns for Congress' past misdemeanors, Lalit Gate

12 Aug 2015 Evaluate

A feisty External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj trained her guns on the Congress Party, and specifically on its president and vice president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, to explain and justify the past alleged misdemeanors of the ‘First Family’ and the party before targeting her on Lalit Gate. Ignoring the ruckus caused by the opposition, she forcefully stressed her innocence and added that she had done nothing wrong. Leader of Congress, Mallikarjun had said that Sushma has admitted fault. While Sushma stated that she accepts fault if helping a woman suffering from cancer is a fault, amid raucous sloganeering by the opposition. She further questioned kharge whether he considers such acceptance as admission of guilt.

The External Affairs Minister stated that there was no conflict of interest in her case as her husband and daughter had not taken a single penny from Lalit Modi. Sushma said that P. Chidambaram was the Finance Minister when Income Tax department appointed Chidambaram's wife Nalini Chidambaram as his counsel. This is conflict of interest. While P. Chidambaram was Finance Minister, Nalini Chidambaram took Rs 1 crore fee from Saradha Group.

Earlier, Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge had asked Swaraj to step down from her post on moral grounds and for direct and indirect involvement. Kharge said that the Prime Minister who always said 'Na Khaunga na khaane dunga' is now saying 'keep eating and he will watch’.

 

 

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