Youth Congress workers protest against PM, demand Sushma's resignation

Members of the Youth Congress staged a protest here on Wednesday and burnt the effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not sacking External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj over the recent controversy surrounding former IPL boss Lalit Modi.

They demanded that Swaraj be sacked with immediate effect for providing assistance to Lalit Modi with the travel documents.

Raising slogans against the government, they asked Prime Minister Modi to break his silence over the matter and come out clean.

"Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi is residing in a foreign country with crores of Indian rupees. On what account did our honourable Union External Affairs Minister help him with a visa? Spoke to him over phone? Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims that even a leaf in the tree does not move without his orders, then how can a senior minister take such a decision without his approval? Is it possible? He should break his silence and come out clean," state Youth Congress spokesperson Jiten Tiwari told ANI here.

Swaraj, who has been facing criticism for helping the former IPL boss in procuring the travel documents from the UK, had on Sunday said she had taken a humanitarian view of Lalit Modi's case since his wife was suffering from cancer.

She further said that British MP Keith Vaz had spoken to her on the same, adding she believes that giving an Indian citizen 'emergency travel documents' cannot spoil relations between India and the UK.

Vaz, who is facing an inquiry in the UK over the role he played in Modi receiving his travel papers, said that he had checked with the Indian Government before taking any action and added that he had received a 'no objection' from New Delhi.