Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday dismissed BJP's charges that they had helped Vijay Mallya get bank loans during UPA's tenure, even as Congress hit back raising a series of questions asking who let the beleaguered businessmen flee.
Ahead of the Budget Session, BJP alleged Congress has been pushed against the wall as "corrupt hands" of Singh and Chidambaram ensured bank loans to Mallya's "sinking" Kingfisher Airlines.
The party quoted from purported letters written by businessman Mallya to Singh in which he sought his intervention following which his now defunct company received loans.
Both Singh and Chidambaram insisted that letters from captains of industry were routine and were "marked down" to appropriate authorities and no law of the land was violated.
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(With PTI inputs.)
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