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Union Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi Saturday rang up Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra demanding a probe into a breach, which, she said, led to a written reply to a Lok Sabha question on Hamas being issued in her name without her approval...
Lekhi also announced on X (formerly Twitter) that an inquiry will reveal the culprit after it was pointed out that the websites of the Lok Sabha and the Ministry of External Affairs continue to carry the question and the response in her name, given Friday..
Lekhis statements created a flutter, with the Opposition using the opportunity to get back at the government over the expulsion of the Trinamool Congresss Mahua Moitra Friday for her unethical conduct of sharing her Lok Sabha portal ID and password with an unauthorised person...
Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said that if asking questions through someone else could lead to Moitras expulsion, a minister denying that her response to a Lok Sabha question was approved by her needs to be investigated as well.. Asking questions that were submitted through someone else led to expulsion of an MP yesterday, today a Minister denies that reply to a PQ was approved by her, shouldnt that be investigated too?.
The matter came to light after Lekhi, replying to a post on X on the Lok Sabha question, said that she had not signed any paper with this question and this answer...
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