Sushma Swaraj used to be a darling of the Opposition.
As Speaker, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Somnath Chatterjee had paid her fulsome compliments, going so far as to call her the best parliamentary affairs minister India has ever had, much to the irritation of his party. More recently, after she was made minister for external affairs, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav defended her when she was charged with having given disgraced businessman Lalit Modi a way out of his predicament by telling the British government to let him travel abroad during the period he did ...
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First Published: Sat, March 24 2018. 10:57 IST
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