Sushma Swaraj Tweets About Big Reveal in Parliament on Congress Leader

New Delhi:  Union Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted this morning that she would reveal in Parliament the name of a senior Congress leader who lobbied with her for a diplomatic passport for a coal scam accused leader.

 

A senior Congress leader was pressing me hard to give diplomatic passport to the Coal Scam accused Santosh Bagrodia.@ANI_news

– Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) July 22, 2015

I will disclose name of the leader on the floor of the House.@imTejasBarot

– Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) July 22, 2015

Santosh Bagrodia, a former minister of state for coal, has been named as an accused in a coal scam case linked to the allocation of a coal block in Maharashtra to a private company. He was summoned by a special CBI court on Tuesday.

Sushma Swaraj, the foreign minister, has said she will respond in Parliament to attacks from the 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.

The Congress has decided to stall proceedings in the monsoon session, which began yesterday, unless the government removes three top BJP leaders – Sushma Swaraj and Chief Ministers Vasundhara Raje and Shivraj Chouhan. The government has said no action will be taken against them.

In the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley offered a debate “right now” on Lalit-gate. Besides Ms Swaraj, Vasundhara Raje has been accused of helping Lalit Modi, who lives in London.