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Lalit Modi row: Congress attacks Sushma Swaraj’s ‘humanitarian’ move, demands her resignation
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Scores of Congress workers on Monday protested outside residence of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj demanding her resignation for \"extending help\" to scam-tainted former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi in procuring travel documents in the UK.
Scores of Congress workers on Monday protested outside residence of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj demanding her resignation for "extending help" to scam-tainted former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi in procuring travel documents in the UK.
Shouting slogans and holding placards, the Congress workers demanded action against Swaraj and said she must quit or Prime Minister Narendra Modi should sack her immediately from the Union Cabinet. The protesters also burnt effigies of Swaraj.
Congress has been attacking Swaraj since yesterday after reports surfaced that she had written to British lawmaker Keith Vaz to allegedly recommend travel documents for Lalit Modi for visiting Portugal.
Read: Sushma Swaraj fixed Lalit Modi travel, aided scam-tainted ex-IPL chief get travel papers
Swaraj has said she had written to Vaz on "humanitarian grounds" after Lalit Modi said his wife was ill.
Modi is wanted in India and has made London his home since 2010 to avoid a probe in the alleged betting and misappropriation of funds in the T20 cricket tournament.
Read: Amid controversy, Sushma Swaraj tweets ‘what benefit did I pass on to him?'
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