The Congress stated that it will move a privilege motion against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for “misleading” the parliament on the issue of the death of 39 Indians who were kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 from Mosul.

Congress leaders Ambika Soni, Pratap Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo alleged that the government tried to suppress the issue of killing of 39 Indians.

Soni asserted, “We are definitely going to bring a privilege motion against the Minister of India for having misguided the House both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. When a minister gives statement on the floor of the house, it is considered an assurance. She (Swaraj) gave an assurance that these people were alive and dismissed all other inputs being given by others. Today they have proved right and her confidential sources, we do not know what they are, have proved wrong.”

Bajwa said Sushma Swaraj should disclose the sources which formed basis of her earlier claims that the 39 Indians, kidnapped by ISIS, were alive and added that the families of those killed should be given adequate compensation and that the central government should also provide jobs to the members of each family.