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Lying in Subramanian Swamy's nature: Jairam Ramesh
May 06, 2016
As the Upper House awaits the authentication of the documents submitted by Subramanian Swamy (the deadline is 6 pm), Congress senior leader Jairam Ramesh says lying is in Subramanian Swamy's nature.
Ramesh's statement is in response to the Rajya Sabha chairman asking Swamy to authenticate his documents before 6 pm. If that doesn't happen, the chair said, his remarks made on Wednesday, would be struck off.
As the Upper House adjourned for an hour, Subramanian tweeted: Met Parriker and congratulated
him for a smashing speech in LS. Will meet him again after satisfying
Chm RS on docs authentication done.
Swamy, who debuted as a Rajya Sabha member last week, led the ruling
BJP's attack on the opposition Congress on the chopper deal in which
bribes were allegedly paid by Anglo-Italian company AgustaWestland in
India when the Congress was in power.
The Congress hit back at Swamy calling him "diabolical and twisted".
"He suffers from an obsession...that's why he keeps quoting the wrong
country. It reveals your twisted mindset. It is diabolical. I cannot
come down to your level," Congress leader Anand Sharma said, speaking
right after Swamy during a debate on alleged bribes by defence
manufacturer AgustaWestland to swing a contract for the supply of 12
helicopters to India.
Swamy's debut speech in Parliament was full of indirect attacks at
Congress president Sonia Gandhi. "Before even Dr Manmohan Singh, she
should be interrogated first by the CBI," he said. Without taking her
name, Swamy referred to her as "a super cabinet" and a "higher
authority than then PM Dr Singh".
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