Vadra slams ‘attention-seeking’ Swamy

New Delhi, June 25

Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on Saturday lashed out at BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for “undermining” waiters, saying the latter’s derogatory remarks about waiters, who worked so hard for their living, are “deplorable and classist”.

“So is there no dignity in being a Waiter? The attention-seeking BJP MP Swamy’s comment ‘Ministers who wear a coat and tie look like waiters and must be instructed to wear Indian clothes’ undermines waiters who work hard for a living; making condescending and derogatory remarks about them is deplorable and classist,” Vadra said on Facebook.

Vadra’s reaction came after Swamy said the saffron party should direct “ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes while abroad” and added that “in coat and tie they look like waiters”. In an apparent swipe at Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, whose photographs of meeting with the Bank of China Chairman Tian Guoli in Beijing in a lounge suit appeared in newspapers, Swamy asked the BJP to advise ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes when abroad.

Swamy has been critical of the Finance Ministry over the past couple of days and has been mounting attacks on its officials via Twitter. ANI