Video: Watch excerpts of Sushma Swaraj’s powerful speech in Parliament – hitting Rahul Gandhi for a six

Staff correspondent, August 12, 2015, NewsCrunch

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge spoke for an hour on Wednesday delivering a dull speech during the Lok Sabha debate on Lalitgate.

Then Sushma Swaraj responded in full fury - intense and emotional. Holding nothing back, she went after Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi getting personal and playing to the gallery to the hilt.

She asked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to take a long vacation and reflect on his own family’s history first.

“You love going on vacations. On your next vacation, read the history of your family and come back and ask 'Mamma, how much money did we get in the Quattrocchi incident?’”

Rahul Gandhi had alleged that Sushma Swaraj had taken money to help Lalit Modi.

Responding to that charge Sushma Swaraj asked him to ask his "mamma" on "how much money had been taken from Quattrocchi" and "why did 'daddy' (Rajiv Gandhi) release the killer (Anderson) of 15,000 people (in Bhopal gas leak)".

"That is called quid pro quo... Rahul should ask his mother, why they did the quid pro quo" with regard to Quattrocchi and Anderson.