Manmohan Singh thanks Congress, Sonia Gandhi for showing solidarity
Moneylife Digital Team 12 March 2015
Sonia Gandhi led a march to show solidarity to Singh’s residence in which several of former ministers Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni, Veerappa Moily and K Rehman Khan were present
 
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday thanked the Congress and party Chief Sonia Gandhi for showing solidarity with him and said he was grateful to them.
 
Shortly after the Congress President and other top leaders marched to his residence to show their support to him, he said he was “more than pleased and grateful”.
 
“The Congress party, Soniaji and all members of the working committee and senior leaders have come to my residence, expressed solidarity with me and that we will fight this case to the best of our ability,” said the former Prime Minister, who has been summoned as an accused in a coal scam case.
 
Earlier in the day, Sonia Gandhi chaired a meeting of the CWC at Congress headquarters and immediately led a march to Singh’s residence about half a km away in the heart of the capital in which several of Singh’s Cabinet colleagues P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni, Veerappa Moily and K Rehman Khan were present.
 
The Congress leaders also attacked the government accusing it of maintaining a “studied silence” after the CBI had told the court that there was no criminality involved in the allocation of Talabira coal blocks II to Hindalco company of Aditya Birla group in Odisha in 2005 when Singh also held the portfolio of coal. Gandhi declared that they would fight the case with all legal means at their command
 
“I was outraged at the news that summons had been served to Manmohan Singh,” the Congress President said.
 
“The former Prime Minister is known not only in our country but throughout the world as being a person of integrity and probity. We are here to offer our unstinted support, our solidarity.
 
“The Congress party is fully behind him. We shall fight this legally and with all our means at our command. We are sure, we are convinced that he will be vindicated,” she told reporters at Singh’s residence. 
 
A special court had summoned Singh along with industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary PC Parakh and three others as accused in a case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked them to appear before it on 8th April. 
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