New Delhi: A day after Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari gave a clean chit to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and son Dushyant Singh over the Lalit Modi controversy, BJP MP R.K. Singh on Tuesday struck a discordant note over party leaders Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje extending help to former IPL chief Lalit Modi, saying that “any help to a fugitive is legally and morally wrong”.
He also urged the government to take measures to bring Mr Lalit Modi back to India to face the law. Also, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, who on Sunday was quoted as saying that the controversial deal between the former IPL commissioner and Mr Dushyant Singh was a “commercial transaction”, clarified on Tuesday that the authorities in India would continue to do their job probing the Rs 11 crore-plus transaction between Mr Singh and Mr Lalit Modi.
The finance minister said his remarks on this issue were misinterpreted after the Opposition attacked him on the subject. “I have never used such a word. That is never part of my domain,” Mr Jaitley said on the sidelines of an event he was attending at Stanford University in California. The finance minister is currently on a visit to the United States and was reacting to reporters’ queries.
