Sushma Swaraj removes 'Foreign Minister' from her Twitter handle

July 22, 2015 16:48

Sushma Swaraj removes 'Foreign Minister' from her Twitter handle.

This comes hours after the External Affairs Minister tweeted today saying a Congress leader had pressed her to give a diplomatic passport to coal scam accused Santosh Bagrodia.

However, the minister did not disclose the name of the Congress leader, saying she would do so in Parliament.

"A senior Congress leader was pressing me hard to give diplomatic passport to Coal Scam accused Santosh Bagrodia I will disclose name of the leader on the floor of the House," Swaraj tweeted.

Bagrodia, who is a former minister of state for coal, was summoned on Tuesday as an accused by a special court in the coal scam case pertaining to allocation of Maharashtra's Bander coal block to AMR Iron and Steel Pvt Ltd.

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