Unfazed by Sushma Swaraj’s spirited fightback, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the External Affairs Minister should reveal how much money she and her family received from the former IPL boss Lalit Modi and asked why she had helped the “symbol of black money” on the sly.
Participating in the discussion in Lok Sabha on the adjournment motion on the issue, Gandhi also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he has not come to the House as he “does not have guts to sit in the chair and face us and answer the questions raised by us”.
He said the problem with this government was that it does not want to see, hear or speak out the truth, “like Mahatma Gandhi’s three monkeys.” “There are many people who do humanitarian work, but Sushma Swaraj is the first such person who does so silently. I want to ask Sushmaji only one question, how much money she and her family received from Lalit Modi. How much money has she received to save the symbol of black money and why she helped him on the sly,” he said in his short intervention.