Lalitgate: NDA ministers do not resign from their posts, says Rajnath Singh

Union Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday maintained that no member of his party will resign from their ministerial posts.

Singh was reacting to demands by the Congress for the removal of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who have been accused of helping former IPL chairman Lalit Modi with his travel papers.

"There will be no resignation of ministers. We are the NDA, not the UPA," Rajnath Singh told reporters after announcing decisions made by the Cabinet today.

"Our ministers don't do what UPA ministers used to do," added his colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Both Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje are engulfed in the Lalit Modi controversy for having helped him procure documents to travel to Portugal in 2014 for her wife's cancer treatment.

Swaraj, however, has said that her help to Lalit Modi was only on a humanitarian ground and nothing more should be read in to it. Swaraj had tweeted that she believes that giving an Indian citizen emergency travel documents cannot spoil relations between India and the UK.