Sonia leads solidarity march to Manmohan’s residence
13 March 2015 11:39 PM GMT
The entire top Congress leadership including Sonia Gandhi on Thursday took to the streets to express solidarity with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has been summoned as accused in a coal scam case, with the party President calling it “outrageous”.
Sonia Gandhi collected leaders at the party headquarters early in the morning and led a march to Singh’s residence about half a km away in the heart of the capital in which several of Singh’s cabinet colleagues P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni and Veerappa Moily were present.
The Congress leaders also attacked the government accusing it of maintaining a “studied silence” after the CBI had told the court that there was no criminality involved in the allocation of Talabira coal blocks II to Hindalco company of Aditya Birla group in Odisha in 2005 when Singh also held the portfolio of coal. Gandhi declared that they would fight the case with all legal and other means at their command
“I was outraged at the news that summons had been served to Manmohan Singh,” the Congress President said.
Sonia Gandhi collected leaders at the party headquarters early in the morning and led a march to Singh’s residence about half a km away in the heart of the capital in which several of Singh’s cabinet colleagues P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni and Veerappa Moily were present.
The Congress leaders also attacked the government accusing it of maintaining a “studied silence” after the CBI had told the court that there was no criminality involved in the allocation of Talabira coal blocks II to Hindalco company of Aditya Birla group in Odisha in 2005 when Singh also held the portfolio of coal. Gandhi declared that they would fight the case with all legal and other means at their command
“I was outraged at the news that summons had been served to Manmohan Singh,” the Congress President said.
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