The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) activists staged a protest outside the Safdarjung Lane residence of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj here on Tuesday and demanded her resignation for providing assistance to former IPL chairman in securing the travel documents.
The NSUI activists, who raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA Government, demanded that Swaraj be sacked from the Union Cabinet.
“There should be an immediate investigation into the case of not only the absconder (Lalit Modi), but also Sushma Swaraj’s family for offering him help. We will continue to protest until Swaraj resigns,” NSUI spokesperson Amrish Ranjan Pandey told.
The security personnel, however, made all attempts to bring the situation under control.
The Congress, which has sharpened its attack against the External Affairs, has sought a clarification from Prime Minister Modi on the entire episode.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had yesterday demanded that Swaraj be sacked from the Union Cabinet in the wake of revelations related to Lalit Modi.
Swaraj had on Sunday said she had taken a humanitarian view of Lalit Modi’s case since his wife was suffering from cancer.
She further said that British MP Keith Vaz had spoken to her on the same, adding she believes that giving an Indian citizen ’emergency travel documents’ cannot spoil relations between India and the UK.
Vaz, who is facing an inquiry in the UK over the role he played in Modi receiving his travel papers, said that he had checked with the Indian Government before taking any action and added that he had received a ‘no objection’ from New Delhi.
