A day after launching a frontal attack on Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, on Monday, targeted former Union Minister Rajiv Shukla, who was the IPL Chairman during Mr. Modi's time.

In a series of tweets, Mr. Modi said: “Will all congress party members specifically @ShuklaRajiv a #minister in #congress advise who #paid for all his #private jet trips - or was Ashok Chaturvedi just did it as a favor to you. Amongst many other planes you took. What favor did you provide them. Let all congress ministers provide such data. Let DGCA make public the Passenger manifest in last 10 years as a start.”

Ashok Chaturvedi is the founder of Uflex Limited, who was sentenced to four-year imprisonment in a Noida land scam case. He is currently out on bail and has appealed against the verdict.

Mr. Modi tweeted more: “My specific Query to Congress Party - specifically - has the Modi Group or as a matter of fact any group ever provided you any of your MP's any hospitality, favors, election funding, rides on planes, hotel, cars, dinners, plants in your constituency etc etc”

He even charged that some Congress MPs asked him and the BCCI for favours “to include their sons in IPL teams.”

Mr. Modi also uploaded details of his cases and notices from all departments along with his answers and rebuttals.

Top developments

1.Mr. Modi alleged that Mr. Jaitley had control over the BCCI for decades and had continued to stick by his “oldest friend” — former Board president N. Srinivasan — even after the media and the court found him guilty.

2.A report in the Sunday Times said Mr. Modi had used the names of Prince of Wales Charles and Duke of York Prince Andrew in support of his claim for a travel permit.

3.Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria admitted that he had met Mr. Modi in London last year, but clarified that he had asked him to return to Mumbai and lodge a case in connection with underworld threats to his life.

4.Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis asked Mr. Maria to “provide information officially to the government as to what he has said in the media”.


5.Mr. Modi had dismissed allegations levelled against him in the controversy, saying that he was being targeted as part of a political conspiracy aimed at destabilising the Narendra Modi government.

6.Mr. Modi's counsel Mehmood Abdi accused former UPA Ministers Salman Khursheed, P. Chidambaram and Shashi Tharoor of being behind the current controversy.

7.BJP MP Kirti Azad, hinting at a feud within the party on Twitter, referred to a party insider playing a role in leaking information about Ms. Swaraj’s recommendation and her family’s association with Mr. Modi.

8.The U.K. said it will not probe into the allegations against Labour party MP Keith Vaz. The Commissioner for Standards examined a complaint of conflict-of-interest and dismissed it for lack of sufficient evidence.

9.The Union government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh came out in full support of Ms. Swaraj. Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah said the recommendation was made on “humanitarian” and not “moral” grounds.

10.Ms. Swaraj defended her decision to recommend travel documents for former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi, after taking a "humanitarian view" and asserted that she asked the British government to examine his request and follow the rules.