HRD minister Smriti Irani has a spat with Economic Times journalist Anubhuti Vishnoi on Twitter.

Vishnoi's report in the ET today says that  HRD minister Smriti Irani recommended over 5,000 requests for admission to the Central government-run Kendriya Vidyalaya chain of schools in the current academic year, a more than four-fold jump from quota levels of her predecessors.

Of the admissions recommended by the minister, some 3,000 were finally effected after the others apparently opted out on some account or the other.   Read the full report here.


Smriti Irani tweeted: "HRD minister can usually recommend 1200 admissions to KVs under minister quota. @anubhutivishnoi it is bcoz of journalists like u dat a reader like me has stopped subscribing to ET.
All admissions r recorded as per requests frm MPs across parties+Bpl families. Ur source based lie as usual ignores facts."


On Friday, Irani found herself in a spot when her remarks that women in the country are not told what to wear, whom to meet and where to go, drew voices of dissent from an audience she was addressing.

"In India I don't think any woman is dictated what to wear, how to wear, whom to meet, when to meet....I am of the opinion I don't think anybody is dictated here, you are not told," she said while interacting with New York- based journalist Tina Brown at an event in New Delhi.


As many from the gathering vociferously disagreed with the minister's remarks, Brown drew her attention to it. Putting up a brave front, Irani retorted, "Are you told? I am sorry. I am not. My apologies ladies." Trying to justify her remarks, Irani said she did not come from a celebrated family but an absolutely lower middle class family which told her to determine her own future.