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Lalit Modi now drags Varun into row
New Delhi, July 1
Former IPL chief Lalit Modi has claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) MP Varun Gandhi met him in London "a few years ago" and offered to
"settle everything" with Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Though Varun Gandhi accepted meeting Lalit Modi, he denied having struck any kind of deal between them.
"Varun-ji
met Lalit Modi in London along with Bharatpur, Rajasthan, MLA Jagat
Singh three years ago. He was in London and the meeting was only a
chance. There was no any kind of deal or discussion over his help," an
aide to Varun Gandhi told IANS, requesting anonymity.
Lalit Modi on late Tuesday alleged in a series of tweets that Varun Gandhi met him and offered to settle everything.
"@varungandhi80
came to see me at my house a few years ago and said he can settle
everything in @INCIndia with his aunt," Modi tweeted.
"He wanted
me to meet her sister from Italy. I heard him next I heard from our
common friend who introduced us that auntie wants 60 million dollars.
Told them whaaaat are u nuts go HKG a kite. Can he deny that. I hope he
does," Modi posted on Twitter.
In another tweet, he clarified:
"The auntie he refers to is #soniagandhi. The sister is #soniagandhi
sister - just for clarity."
"Please clarify @varungandhi80 did u
or did u not come to my house in London. Whilst staying at the Ritz
hotel in London a few years ago," said another of his tweets.
The BJP came in support of Varun.
"The
whole world knows that the families of Rahul Gandhi and Varun Gandhi
are separate, party wise and ideology wise," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz
Hussain told media on Wednesday.