Vadra attacks Swamy, calls him ‘attention seeking BJP MP’

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra attacked Subramanian Swamy on Saturday for his “derogatory remarks” about waiters and called

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra attacked Subramanian Swamy on Saturday for his “derogatory remarks” about waiters and called him an “attention seeking BJP MP”.

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Soon after, Swamy hit back. “Mr Vadra should concentrate on staying out of jail instead of making political comments,” he told reporters.

Earlier in his Facebook post, Vadra termed as “classist” the BJP MP’s remarks that ministers who wear a coat and tie look like waiters and must be instructed to wear Indian clothes. “So is there no dignity in being a waiter?” Vadra wrote. “Undermining waiters who work hard for a living; making condescending and derogatory remarks about them is deplorable and classist,” he said.

In his tweet on Friday, Swamy had also urged the BJP leadership to ask ministers to wear “traditional and modernised” Indian clothes when they go abroad. The remarks had visibly caused unease in the BJP, a section of which sought action against Swamy for his continued diatribe against key policymakers and indirect attacks on finance minister Arun Jaitley.

Asked about the reported unhappiness of the BJP leadership over his remarks, Swamy said: “That is what your press is saying. I don’t know.”