{"id":42206,"date":"2017-10-22T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=42206"},"modified":"2017-10-22T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T17:10:13","slug":"irani-hits-back-at-rahul-gandhi-for-tweet-on-jay-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/irani-hits-back-at-rahul-gandhi-for-tweet-on-jay-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Irani Hits Back at Rahul Gandhi for Tweet on Jay Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"

India\u2019s Textiles and I&B Minister Smriti Irani gestures as she addresses a news conference at BJP office in New Delhi, Oct. 18. (Kamal Kishore\/PTI)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Smriti Irani hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Oct. 20, for his comments referring to a court barring a news portal from publishing articles on a company owned by Amit Shah\u2019s son, saying a person \u201cout on bail\u201d was \u201cmocking\u201d the courts.<\/p>\n

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The information and broadcasting minister also said the Congress leader\u2019s attempts would not help his party win the Gujarat Assembly polls and wished Rahul Gandhi on the occasion of the Gujarati New Year.<\/p>\n

\u201cA person out on bail mocks the courts. Lage raho Bhai Gujarat phir bhi haroge<\/i> (keep trying brother, still you will lose in Gujarat) Saal Mubarak<\/i> (Best wishes for New Year) (sic),\u201d she said in a tweet, referring to the Congress vice president being on bail in the National Herald<\/i> case.<\/p>\n

Earlier, apparently targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, Rahul Gandhi had fired a fresh salvo over the controversy surrounding Amit Shah\u2019s son Jay Shah\u2019s company.<\/p>\n

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India\u2019s Textiles and I&B Minister Smriti Irani gestures as she addresses a news conference at BJP office in New Delhi, Oct. 18. (Kamal Kishore\/PTI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cMitron<\/i> (friends), will not speak about \u2018Shah-zada,\u2019<\/i> nor will let anyone speak,\u201d he had tweeted in Hindi, referring to an interim injunction granted by an Ahmedabad court on a criminal defamation plea filed against news portal \u2018The Wire\u2019 by Jay Shah.<\/p>\n

He had also tagged a news report \u2014 \u201cAhmedabad Court injunction: \u2018The Wire\u2019 barred from writing on Jay Shah\u201d \u2014 along with his tweet.<\/p>\n

Jay Shah had recently filed a criminal defamation case against The Wire<\/i> after it published an article claiming that the turnover of a company run by him saw a huge rise after the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014.<\/p>\n

An Ahmedabad court had, on Oct. 16, restrained the portal from publishing or broadcasting reports based on the article published by it regarding Jay Shah\u2019s firm.<\/p>\n

Both the Congress and Rahul Gandhi have repeatedly questioned Modi\u2019s \u201csilence\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India\u2019s Textiles and I&B Minister Smriti Irani gestures as she addresses a news conference at BJP office in New Delhi, Oct. 18. (Kamal Kishore\/PTI) Smriti Irani hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Oct. 20, for his comments referring to a court barring a news portal from publishing articles on a company owned by…<\/p>\n

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