"All prime ministers and other ministers in any government, receive representations from various captains of industry which we in normal course, pass on to appropriate authority. This is what I have done and done with full satisfaction that we were not doing anything which was against the law of the land," Manmohan Singh told the media here. "Please ask the present government whether they received representations at all in the last three years. "The Congress wants to know who permitted Mallya to escape, who waived loans to him. We want to ask was it not the BJP which voted Mallya and brought him in the Rajya Sabha ," said Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala.

Source: Economic Times January 30, 2017 14:15 UTC