Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) youth wing members on Saturday staged a protest outside External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's residence here, demanding her immediate removal from the Union Cabinet over her alleged role in facilitating travel documents for LOndon-based former IPL czar Lalit Modi, who is under the law enforcement scanner for a graft-related case.
The protestors were seen shouting slogans denouncing the BJP and the External Affairs Minister over the ongoing Lalit Modi row. They were also carrying posters and banners that demanded Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's resignation.
The police have placed several barricades to stop the protestors from marching towards the minister's residence.
Indian media reported that Swaraj had last year asked British authorities to examine a request to provide travel documents to Modi, at a time when his passport had been revoked by New Delhi.
Swaraj has denied the allegations and said on social media she was helping Modi, who is based in London, on "humanitarian grounds" as he needed to visit his ailing wife in Portugal.
Modi was suspended as the head of the cash-rich Indian Premier League cricket tournament in 2010, following allegations of corruption that also ensnared politicians.
On Friday, Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party leader Ashish Khetan said, "Prime Minister Modi's Government, which is known to be close to Lalit Modi, all ministers and chief ministers are all hand in glove with Lalit Modi, even they are unable to deny that Lalit Modi is clean. In fact, they are agreeing that he has allegations against him. I feel that Lalit Modi is giving the whole matter a political colour and trying to escape the law. If he is indeed honest and clean, he should come back to the country and face the law.