External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj was at the centre of a political storm on Sunday after acknowledging that she helped controversial former IPL chief Lalit Modi procure British travel documents on “humanitarian grounds”, prompting calls for her resignation from opposition parties.
Swaraj, 63, made the clarification in a series of tweets after the British newspaper The Sunday Times reported Keith Vaz, the British MP of Indian origin, used her name to pressure Britain’s top immigration official to grant travel papers to Modi
The Congress demanded the resignation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for her help to former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi in getting British travel documents and dragged Prime Minister Narendra Modi into the raging row, saying “needle of suspicion rests” at his door.