The Congress MPs led by party chief Sonia Gandhi on Thursday marched towards the residence of former prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who was yesterday summoned in the coal blocks allocation scam, to express their solidarity with him.
The march began from the AICC Headquarters at 24, Akbar Road, here.
Earlier on Wednesday, a special court in Delhi summoned the former prime minister, former coal secretary P.C. Parakh, industrialist Kumar Manglam Birla and three others in the coal blocks allocation case.
The court summoned them for offences of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust and under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act. They have all been asked to appear in court on the April 8.
Extremely upset with the summons, the former prime minister had yesterday said that he is open to legal scrutiny and truth will prevail in the matter.
The case pertains to allocation of Talabira II coal block in Odisha to M/s Hindalco in 2005, when the then prime minister was holding the coal portfolio.
