Swaraj row: Youth Cong stage protests

Youth Congress workers on Monday staged a protest outside external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s residence demanding her resignation for “extending help” to scam-tainted former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi in procuring travel documents in the UK.

Shouting slogans and holding placards, the Congress workers demanded action against Swaraj and said she must quit or Prime Minister Narendra Modi should sack her immediately from the Union Cabinet. The protesters also burnt effigies of Swaraj.

The demonstration was staged near the external affairs minister’s Safdarjung Lane residence, as security personnel had put up barricades on the road leading to her house. She was not at home at the time.

Congress has been attacking Swaraj since Sunday after reports surfaced that she had written to British lawmaker Keith Vaz to allegedly recommend travel documents for Lalit Modi for visiting Portugal.