Senior Congress leader Dr. Karan Singh on Wednesday turned lyrical as he narrated an excerpt of a ghazal written by former Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, while responding to the summons issued to former prime minister Manmohan Singh in connection with the coal blocks allocation scam.
"Bat karni kabhi aisi mushkil to na thi, jaisi ab hai teri mahfil kabhi aisi to na thi," (Conversing has never been so difficult for me, your company now is no more as it used to be), he told the media outside parliament.
Earlier in the day, a special CBI court summoned former prime minister Manmohan Singh, former coal secretary P C Parakh, Aditya Birla Group chairman K M Birla and three others in connection with the coal blocks allocation scam.
The court has summoned them on April 8 for offences of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust and under provisions of prevention of corruption act.