Kirti Azad stands by his tweet on Swaraj controversy

Cricketer-turned BJP MP Kirti Azad today stood by his tweet "#BJPs AsteenKaSaanp", posted two days ago, suggesting that the row over Sushma Swaraj helping Lalit Modi to obtain travel documents was an insider job.
"I stand by my tweet," Azad told PTI, adding if he had second thought about the remark, he would have deleted or withdrawn it.
Asking Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for his opinion on probing those who had approved holding of IPL tournament in South Africa in 2009, Azad tweeted on Monday: "@LalitKModi being probed by #ED. Who were d members of #BCCI #EC who approved #IPL IN #SA, Shd they 2 not be probed? What say @arunjaitley."

"#BJPs #AsteenKaSaanp & #Arnab conspire against BJP leaders. Guess the snake? I Stand With SushmaSwaraj," he had tweeted, mentioning that the media personality was behind the conspiracy.
As the top BJP leadership and the government continued to stand by Swaraj in the row, it was Jaitley himself who came out in defence of Swaraj yesterday saying what she had done was "bona fide" and with "good intentions".
Azad did not see any merit in the hue and cry being raised over the issue.

"I don't understand the hue and cry being raised over Swaraj putting in a word with the British authorities to issue travel document to Modi to visit his ailing wife in Portugal last year where she was undergoing surgery for liver cancer," he told PTI on phone from Darbhanga.

She had told the British authorities to issue travel document to Modi only if it was within the ambit of their law, Azad said.
Observing that Swaraj was being attacked only because she had helped out the former IPL Czar, the BJP MP said there would not have been any issue if it were some other person in place of Lalit Modi.