Will insist on forced accountability in Parliament: Congress

July 07, 2015 10:21

Asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence over the Lalit Modi controversy, a senior Congress leader has said that the principled opposition party would insist on "forced accountability" during the upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament.

"We would like to warn the Prime Minister that if he, the BJP and RSS feel that by stonewalling the justified demands of resignations of two of his cabinet colleagues and Chief Minister of Rajasthan, who stand exposed and condemned, and by persisting with his obduracy the opposition would relent, he is sadly mistaken," Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Anand Sharma told PTI.

Sharma is currently in New York, to attend a meeting of the International Council of the Socialist International, an umbrella organisation of 152 political parties across the world.

"The Congress party, as the principled opposition, will insist on forced accountability and the responsibility for adverse fallout would squarely lie on the door strop of Prime Minister Modi," he claimed.

He was referring to the allegations made against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Union Human Resources and Development Minister Smriti Irani, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia.

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