Battling charges of helping former IPl commissioner lalit Modi get travel documents from the UK authorities, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said that a Congress leader had pressurised her to give 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 pressurising 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,” Sushma Swaraj tweeted.
Bagrodia, who is a former Minister of State for Coal, was on Tuesday summoned as accused by a Special Court in a coal scam case pertaining to allocation of Maharashtra’s Bander coal block to AMR Iron and Steel Pvt ltd.