New Delhi: With the 'Lalitgate' snowballing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday night and is reported to have discussed the issue threadbare.


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The controversy surrounding former IPL chief Lalit Modi has engulfed two big BJP leaders – External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.


While Swaraj has so far received full backing from the party and its leadership, Raje has been left on her own with the party refusing to support her till all the facts are ascertained.


At the meeting last night, Modi and Shah are reported to have discussed the strategy on how to counter the Opposition which has been gunning for two leaders' resignation and also demanding the PM to speak on the matter.


Swaraj has been accused of facilitating Lalit Modi's travel from the UK to Portugal to visit her cancer-stricken wife last year. The minister has admitted that she had helped Modi secure travel documents from the UK, where the former IPL chief has been living since 2010 after leaving India, but reasoned that the assistance was on “humanitarian grounds”.


Raje, on the other hand, has been accused of giving a witness statement in favour of Modi's immigration application in the UK on the condition that the same would not be disclosed to the Indian authorities.


Raje's son has also been accused of receiving crores worth of money from the ex-IPL chief in a dubious share sale.


Raje, who has already spoken to Shah over phone once, was expected to meet the BJP president and Home Minister Rajnath Singh today on the sidelines of a function in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab. However, reports say, Raje has cancelled her visit to Punjab owing to ill health.


It may be noted that Lalit Modi is wanted in India in several cases of corruption, money-laundering and tax evasion.