allegations levelled by the Bhartiya Janta Party +All PMs&other ministrs in any govt receive repr. frm various captains of industry which is passed on to appropriate authority:Manmohan Singh— ANI (@ANI_news) January 30, 2017What I did was with full satisfaction of mine that we wr nt doing anything against law of the land:Manmohan Singh on BJP allegations #Mallya pic.twitter.com/5VhAcuC1VR— ANI (@ANI_news) January 30, 2017It was a normal routine transaction & therefore the letter thats being talked abt is nothing but an ordinary piece of letter: Manmohan Singh— ANI (@ANI_news) January 30, 2017Its an ordinary piece of letter which any Government in my position would have dealt with: Manmohan Singh on BJP allegations #VijayMallya— ANI (@ANI_news) January 30, 2017NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday dismissed the(BJP) of helping Vijay Mallya get loans and said "he has not done anything against the law of the land. ""All Prime Ministers and other ministers in any government receive representation from various captains of industry which is passed on to appropriate authority," the former Prime Minister said when asked about the charges.The former Prime Minister along with senior congress leader P. Chidamabaram today addressed a press conference to present Congress' document on state of Indian economy. "What I did was with full satisfaction of mine that we were not doing anything against law of the land," Manmohan Singh said on the sidelines of the press conference. "It was a normal routine transaction and therefore the letter thats being talked about is nothing but an ordinary piece of letter," he added.Earlier in the day, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged that Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram helped industrialist Vijay Mallya get huge loans for bailing out now defunct Kingfisher Airlines (KFA).He also demanded that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi come clean on the issue.

Source: Times of India January 30, 2017 12:41 UTC