Sushma Swaraj tweets about revelation on Congress leader
Her dramatic tweet comes amid the growing aggressiveness of the opposition Congress that has been persistently demanding the resignation of Swarar and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje for helping out scam-tainted Lalit Modi, the former boss of Indian Premier League.
The Lalit Modi issue rocked Parliament on Tuesday as it sat for the Monsoon session, but the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha disrupted repeatedly leading to multiple adjournments with the opposition trying to corner the government on the Lalit Modi issue and raising demand for Swaraj's resignation.
The Exernal Affairs Minister's tweet obviously comes as a counter seeking to put in a thaw the Congress and keeping everyone in suspense.
The coal scam accused person, as referred by Ms.Swaraj's may be Santosh Bagrodia, who was minister of state for coal under then prime minister Manmohan Singh in 2008-2009.
Bagdogria has been named as an accused in a case linked to the illegal allocation of a coal block in Maharashtra to a private company.
He was summoned by a special CBI court on Tuesday.
But who the Congress leader was who "lobbied" for his diplomatic passport could be a matter of conjecture.
Sushma Swaraj has said she will respond in Parliament to attacks from the Congress and other opposition parties who have accused her of helping disgraced cricket tycoon Lalit Modi travel abroad last year at a time his passport had been cancelled by the Indian government.
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