Controversy
On 29 July 2012, at a function in Ahmedabad, Vijay Darda remarked that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is a tiger and a national saint, embarrassing his party colleagues. A day later, he retracted and downplayed his praise of Modi saying he described the Gujarat chief minister as a "tiger" only in the sense that he (Modi) can "dictate" terms to the BJP leadership.
Mr Darda was reported to have been associated with companies that were awarded coal blocks under the controversial coal allocation by the then Coal Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for a throwaway price. In this controversy his brother Rajendra Darda is also named along with him.
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