Union Minister Smriti Irani, under attack from Congress over an alleged “illegal bar” being run in Goa by her 18-year-old daughter, has hit back saying her daughter’s fault is that her mother holds press conferences on “the loot of ₹ 5,000 crore by Sonia and Rahul Gandhi”. She asserted her daughter is a first-year college student and does not run any bar.
“My daughter’s fault is that her mother holds a press conference on the loot of ₹ 5,000 crore by Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. Her fault is that her mother fought against Rahul Gandhi in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls,” the MP said.
The Enforcement Directorate is questioning the Gandhis in relation to a money laundering case linked to National Herald. Ms Irani had last month addressed a press conference accusing the Congress of trying to protect “illegal properties worth over ₹ 2,000 crore” owned by the Gandhi family when they protested the probe agency’s questioning of Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress “assassinated” and “publicly mutilated” her daughter’s character, Ms Irani said in a press conference and dared the Opposition party to show proof of any wrongdoing. Denying the allegation, she said she will seek answers “in the court of law, and the court of people”.
She also dared Rahul Gandhi to fight from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat again in 2024. “I promise he will lose again,” she said.
In a statement, the lawyer of Smriti Irani’s daughter, Kirat Nagra, has said his client is neither an owner nor operating the restaurant called Silly Souls Goa and has not received any show cause notice from any authority whatsoever as alleged.
Kirat Nagra said various “erroneous, frivolous, malicious and defamatory social media posts being made by various vested quarters trying to settle political scores with our client’s mother, the renowned politician Smriti Irani each of which are predicated on blatant falsities”.
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