The Gujarat chief minister had on October 1 first attributed the figure of Rs.1,880 crore to a government response to an Right To Information applicant of Hisar in Haryana which, he said, had been published in a newspaper on July 12.
This was controverted by the applicant Ramesh Verma who went on national television to say that he had got no such information in response to his RTI application and in fact, the government had not given him any response.
However, the information collected by him from the external affairs ministry and Indian missions abroad had given him a figure of Rs 80 lakh to Rs 85 lakh, he said.
The Prime Minister's Office had said last week that no government money has been spent on the Congress president's overseas visits or on her medical treatment and described Modi's figure of Rs 1,880 crore as "untrue and misleading".
The Central Information Commissioner had also denied the report on the Sonia's expenses.
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