Jaitley will come out with flying colours in DDCA row: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a weekly meeting of the BJP parliamentary party and likened Jaitley to former Bharatiya Janata Party President and stalwart LK Advani who was chargesheeted but later acquitted in the 1990s hawala scam. This was the PM’s first reaction on the latest crisis to hit his government. To MPs, Modi reportedly said Jaitley would come out “with flying colours” in the Delhi cricket body controversy just as Advani had emerged unscathed. But there is a difference. Advani had resigned. “The day allegations were raised against me based on the Jain diaries, that evening itself, sitting in my house in Pandara Road I took the decision to resign (as MP). It was no one else’s decision, it was mine. Soon after I called up (Atal Bihari) Vajapyee to inform him of my decision. He asked me not to resign but I did not listen to anyone,” Advani told interviewers earlier this year. Read More News : National Herald case...