If it's a crime to help a cancer patient like Lalit Modi's wife, I'm guilty: Sushma
August 06, 2015  12:44
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Key points of External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj in the Lok Sabha. Since the Congress has boycotted the Lok Sabha, the EAM gets a chance to make her statement without interruptions and adjournments.


-- Mai dono sadno mein baithti rahi ki shayad charcha ho jaye, lekin charcha hona to door, mujhe charcha hone ke asaar bhi nazar nahi aye. I have waited in both houses waiting for a chance to make a statement or for the discussion to take place, but it did not happen.


--  Injustice is being done with me as I didn't even get a chance to clarify or put forth my opinion.


-- I'm not speaking because the Opposition is not in the house. It's unjust for me not to get an opportunity to defend myself.


-- People who respect me, now want my resignation. But I haven't got a chance to defend myself.


-- Charges against me are baseless. May be my stars will be realigned and I will get back the goodwill of my colleagues. Those colleagues who used to love and respect me, today are speaking bitterly against me. They have even asked for my resignation.


--  I had never requested the UK government to furnish travel documents to Lalit Modi. If I had requested/recommended then the British govt would have answered the Economic Times query saying as much. They said I didn't.


- Mai kehna chaahti hoon, kaise kia aur kyun kia se pehle ye to bata do ki maine kya kia? I want to say that before asking how it was done and why it was done, at least tell me what I have done?


-- Lalitgate is a non issue now. UK govt allowed Lalit Modi to travel as per rules.


-- Lalit Modi's wife is suffering from cancer for the last 17 years and it has recurred 10 times. Did not request or recommend anything to the UK government. There is nothing in the UK Home department papers to back it.

--  I challenge anyone to produce even one shred of evidence. The message I sent was on humanitarian grounds.

-- Agar ek mahila ki madad karna apraadh hai, to haan maine ye apraadh kia hai. Meri jagah agar aap (Speaker) hotin toh kya kartin? Agar Soniaji hotin toh kya kartin? Marney kay liye chhod detiin?
If it is a crime to help a woman like her (cancer patient), then, yes, I have committed a crime. If you (Speaker) were in my place, what would you have done? If Sonia-ji was in my place, what would she have done? Would you have left her (Lalit Modi's wife) to die?
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