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Kejriwal didn't get rank in IIT, Sonia wanted Emergency in 2012: Subramanian Swamy makes explosive claims

Subramanian Swamy also claimed that he wasn’t targeting Arun Jaitley and that the latter looked good in a suit.

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Speaking in a press conference, Subramanian Swamy claimed that Arvind Kejriwal didn’t get a rank in IIT and that Sonia Gandhi had wanted to declare a state of Emergency in 2012. He told ANI: “Last row of RTI column shows that Kejriwal has no rank (IIT).He probably came through other methods-Subramanian Swamy. In 2012, Sonia Gandhi had decided to declare a state of emergency in the country by cooking up false Hindu terror charges."

He also claimed that he wasn’t targeting Arun Jaitley and that the latter looked good in a suit.  Swamy claimed that reports that the party were angry with him were false. He told ANI: “All such reports are false. I am addressing party meetings. These are rumours. If I want to target someone, I do it openly. In fact, Mr Jaitley looks very smart in a coat.”

Earlier, Robert Vadra took a dig at Subramanian Swamy for his "derogatory" remarks about waiters and termed them "classist", prompting the BJP MP to retort that he should concentrate on "staying out of jail" instead of making political comments. Vadra, who is Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law, earlier in the day attacked Swamy over his apparent swipe at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in which he had said ministers who wear a coat and tie look like waiters and must be instructed to wear Indian clothes.

In a Facebook post, Vadra said, "Undermining waiters who work hard for a living; making condescending and derogatory remarks about them is deplorable and classist".

Swamy soon hit back. "Mr Vadra should concentrate on staying out of jail instead of making political comments," he told reporters.Asked about the reported unhappiness of the BJP leadership over his consistent tirade against Jaitley and his ministry's officials, he said, "That is what your press is saying. I don't know."

"People giving me unasked for advice of discipline and restraint don't realise that if I disregard discipline there would be a bloodbath," he tweeted in an obvious attack on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Though he did not name Jaitley, he was obviously referring to the Minister urging him for restraint and discipline in the wake of his attacks on Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian on Wednesday and his use of the word discipline in defending Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das yesterday.

In another apparent swipe at Jaitley, whose photographs of meeting with the Bank of China Chairman Tian Guoli in Beijing in a longue suit appeared in newspapers today, Swamy asked BJP to advise ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian cloths when abroad. "BJP should direct our Ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes while abroad. In coat and tie they look like waiters," Swamy said in another tweet. Swamy has been active on Twitter over the last two-three days, attacking officials of Finance Ministry and taking swipe at Jaitley.

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