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Chidambaram bolsters Congress attack on Sushma
Chidambaram Bolsters Congress Attack On Sushma. The controversy over Sushma Swaraj helping former IPL chief Lalit Modi continued to billow as senior Congress leader and former union finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday accused the external affairs minister of \"nepotism\" and abuse of authority even as the government reiterated its stand that she had committed no impropriety.
New Delhi: The controversy over Sushma Swaraj helping former IPL chief Lalit Modi continued to billow as senior Congress leader and former union finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday accused the external affairs minister of "nepotism" and abuse of authority even as the government reiterated its stand that she had committed no impropriety.
Speaking to reporters in Chennai, Chidambaram also asked the government about the steps it has taken to bring back the former IPL chief, who faces an Enforcement Directorate notice for alleged financial impropriety.
Chidambaram said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has confirmed that the Enforcement Directorate was investigating 16 cases against Modi and show cause notice was issued in 15 cases. Posing seven questions to the government, Chidambaram said if Sushma Swaraj wanted to facilitate Modi getting travel documents on humanitarian grounds, she should have asked him to get in touch with the Indian High Commission in London. "Why did she feel he should have UK travel documents rather than Indian travel documents?" he asked.
Levelling a series of allegations, Chidambaram said it was "nepotism, abuse of authority and violation of rules". He also asked the National Democratic Alliance government to make public the letters exchanged between him and British Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne.
Chidambaram said he wrote to his British counterpart Osborne that Lalit Modi was being investigated under Indian laws and the British government should send him back to India as his passport was revoked by the Indian government.
Continuing the attack on the government, the Congress party in the national capital demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi break his silence on the issue. Calling him "Maun Modi", Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala questioned Narendra Modi's "conspiratorial" silence on the Lalit Modi controversy.
"The prime minister is doing 'Maun Yoga' and his new name should be 'Maun Modi'," Surjewala said at a press conference.
