Smriti Irani targets Rahul over media report on Vadra

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani has targeted Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi after a media report claimed that absconding arms agent Sanjay Bhandari had “booked tickets” for his brother- in-law Robert Vadra.

“Eagerly awaiting Rahul Ji’s poetic explanation for #VadraTicketGate,” Irani tweeted. The minister’s tweet came after Times Now channel claimed that “the absconding arms dealer Bhandari (had) booked business-class tickets for Vadra in 2012.”

Vadra’s reaction to the report was not available. Times Now said Vadra and his lawyers had earlier denied having any links with the absconding arms dealer. Irani’s swipe at Gandhi, asking for his “poetic explanation”, came two days after the Congress leader targeted the government over the Global Hunger Index by citing a poem in a tweet.

Irani had hit back then in a similar fashion. Hitting back, Irani had tweeted: “Ae satta ki bhookh, sabrkar, aankdesathnahi to kya, khudgarzon ko jamakar, mulk ki badnami ka shortohmacha hi lenge (hey hunger for power, be patient, what if you don’t have the numbers, you can collect selfish people, noise can be made to malign the country).”