After Singh's remark, CPI asks PM to break his silence

CPI today latched on to a BJP MP's criticism over the help offered by top party leaders to former IPL boss Lalit Modi and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence and "own up" responsibility for the conduct of his ministers.
"Why is the Prime Minister keeping quite. Prime Minister should own up the responsibility for the conduct of his ministers. Even now he (PM) is keeping quite. He should explain the position of the government," CPI national secretary D Raja told PTI.
Referring to R K Singh, Raja said that he is himself a party MP and was the former Home Secretary and has commented that "nobody should have helped an economic offender".

"Even BJP people like R K Singh are coming out openly and questioning that and saying it was wrong. Even now the Prime Minister keeps quite," Raja said.
R K Singh's strong comments are the first public criticism by a ruling party MP against the help extended to Lalit Modi by External Affairs Minister Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Raje, an issue which has snowballed into a major political storm for the Narendra Modi government despite BJP defending it.
"If anybody helps a 'bhagoda' (fugitive), it is wrong. This is wrong legally as well as morally. If anybody meets a fugitive, it is absolutely wrong. Whosoever has helped him, I think it is completely wrong," Singh had earlier told reporters.

Swaraj and Raje have been facing flak for helping Lalit Modi in procuring travel documents in the UK, a country which he has made his home to avoid legal processes in India.
Modi, 49, travelled to London in 2010 after the Indian Premier League (IPL) became embroiled in allegations of match-fixing and illegal betting.