‘What sort of joke is that this?’ Sanjay Singh slams govt over world ‘Friendship Group’ choose after passport seizure | India Information

NEW DELHI: Aaam Aadmi Get together chief Sanjay Singh slammed the govt. over Parliament’s world outreach program, by which he is additionally named as a pacesetter for Suriname, a rustic in South America. He referred to as the choice “a joke” as his passport his seized. ‘What sort of joke is that this? Govt has seized my passport and now made me head of the friendship group for Suriname,” he stated. A number of Parliamentary Friendship Teams have been constituted by Lok Sabha Speaker OM Birla, together with outreach to over 60 international locations, in a transfer to spice up “India’s inter- parliamentary engagement with the world”, in keeping with the Lok Sabha secretariat’s announcement on Monday. Along with Sanjay Singh, leaders throughout get together strains have been named, together with Shashi Tharoor (Congress), Akhilesh Yadav (SP), and Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM).Learn extra: Om Birla units up ‘Parliamentary Friendship Teams’ with over 60 nationsSanjay Singh’s passport had been seized earlier in 2024, as a part of bail situations, after a Delhi courtroom directed him to submit it and never tamper with proof within the allegations across the Delhi excise coverage case. The directives additionally included a Rs 2 lakh surety and informing the investigating officer earlier than leaving the NCR.The AAP Rajya Sabha MP was arrested in 2023 in reference to a cash laundering case associated to the alleged Delhi excise rip-off.