Stung Sushma stays mum on Lalit Modi visa row developments

June 16, 2015 12:13

India Today reports: Stung by a raging row over her help to tainted former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday flagged off the annual Mansarovar Yatra at an event in New Delhi where she refused to speak at all on the controversy.

At 10.30 am, Sushma arrived at the Jawahar Bhawan and spoke for seven minutes, carefully refusing to address the issue which has put the NDA government on the mat and the opposition Congress demanding her resignation.

On Monday, the BJP insiders told Mail Today, on condition of anonymity, that there is a growing sense of damage from the Lalit Modi episode, coming as it did before the monsoon session in Parliament and the Bihar elections.

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