Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj lashes out the Congress saying it had helped Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi and Bhopal gas leak accused Warren Anderson flee from India.Making a statement in Lok Sabha, she specifically responded to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s charge that she had got money to help Lalit Modi by telling him to ask his “mamma” as to “how much money had been taken from Quattrocchi” and “why did ‘daddy’ (Rajiv Gandhi) get released the killer of 15,000 people (in Bhopal gas leak),” an apparent reference to Anderson.
While she spoke amid slogan-shouting by Congress members, Sonia Gandhi was seen listening to the speech in rapt attention using a headphone.
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Swaraj also targeted former union minister P Chidambaram, saying he had failed to bring back Lalit Modi from United Kingdom as he did not try for his extradition as suggested by the host government and confined his requests to deportation.
“For four years, you (Congress government) did nothing. You remained inactive. There was no effort for extradition. You are asking me how he (Lalit Modi) got right of residency (in UK). He got it during your time. Whatever happened, it was during your tenure,” she told the Congress.
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Swaraj said there was no wrongdoing on her part, saying that she was only helping Modi’s wife who is a cancer patient on humanitarian grounds.
“There’s no conflict of interest in my case. My husband and daughter have not taken a single penny from Lalit Modi,” she said, reacting to allegations that her family members were beneficiaries of the former cricket boss. The minister’s daughter and husband are lawyers.
