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Top Controversies under Modi Government

Top Controversies under Modi Government By  Deepak Parvatiyar    June 23, 2015 5.00 / 5  (100.00%)  1 vote Published in elections.com (http://www.elections.in/blog/top-controversies-under-modi-government/) The latest controversy involving ‘fugitive’ business tycoon Lalit Modi, who lives in exile in Britain, and the ‘undue favour’ to him by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and the chief minister of BJP-ruled Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje, is being considered as the first big credibility test of the one-year-old Narendra Modi government at the Centre. But this is not a first. Controversies have dogged the Modi government right from day one, when he announced his team of ministers. At least 13 of his cabinet ministers had faced various charges of corruption! One of the ministers, Nihalchand Meghwal, was a rape accused and was named in an FIR lodged by a 24-year-old married woman from Jaipur in 2011! Modi Government’s Decisions That Sparked Off Controversie