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Combative govt tears into Congress attack
Straining to be heard above a ceaseless chorus of slogans, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj delivered a strident attack on the Opposition Congress as she declared \"I committed no mistake\" in the tainted cricket tycoon Lalit Modi issue. Unleashing a fierce counterattack, Sushma accused the Congress of helping Bofors-accused Ottavio Quattrocchi and Bhopal gas leak accused Warren Anderson flee from India and roped in Rajiv Gandhi in this regard.
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New Delhi: Straining to be heard above a ceaseless chorus of slogans, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj delivered a strident attack on the Opposition Congress as she declared "I committed no mistake" in the tainted cricket tycoon Lalit Modi issue. Unleashing a fierce counterattack, Sushma accused the Congress of helping Bofors-accused Ottavio Quattrocchi and Bhopal gas leak accused Warren Anderson flee from India and roped in Rajiv Gandhi in this regard.
Showing shades of a younger Sushma Swaraj, she shouted above the din in order to explain that her help to Modi was neither political nor moral. But, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi rejected her spirited defence and trained his guns at Prime Minister Modi and questioning his "guts to face the House".
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu continued from where Sushma left and teared into Congress's defence. Jaitley slammed the Congress for disrupting the House and making a mountain of what was "not even a molehill". Mocking Rahul Gandhi, Jaitley called him "an expert without knowledge".
Jaitley accused the Congress of "empty slogans" on the Lalit Modi issue and said the government rejects the party's allegations concerning Sushma Swaraj. "They could not rise above empty slogans. They could not give any logical arguments," Jaitley said in his reply to the adjournment motion on the Lalit Modi issue in the Lok Sabha.
Going hammer and tongs against the Congress, Sushma read from Arjun Singh’s autobiography and asked the party why did they take Anderson, the key man, out of the country, at a crucial juncture. Advising Rahul Gandhi, who is fond of going on holidays, Sushma said “I suggest he take another holiday and do introspection. To study his family’s history and how much money his family received from Quattrocchi.”
The row paralysed Parliament for its entire Monsoon Session, along with crucial legislations, including the GST tax reform. The Congress had insisted it wouldn’t stop disrupting Parliament till Swaraj along with Chief Ministers Vasundhara Raje and Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
To a set of seven questions from Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, Swaraj replied, “I did nothing secretly.” Refuting allegation of a conflict of interest based on her husband and daughter serving as Lalit Modi’s lawyers.
