Rahul out-clowning himself, says Jaitley

New Delhi, October 16 

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday accused Congress chief Rahul Gandhi of “concocting” falsehood and said he had never ever seen fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi in person, leave alone meeting him in Parliament and helping him escape from the country. 

Continuing to call the Congress leader a “clown prince”, Jaitley said “he lies a dozen times and then in self-delusion believes it to be true”. 

The FM noted Gandhi made two references to him in MP on Monday . Jaitley said Gandhi claimed “I have admitted that Vijay Mallya met me in the House and he told me that he was escaping to London and that I helped him to escape”.  Jaitley rejected the claim, saying it’s “absolute lie”. “…he referred to a meeting he had with me and attributed same statements to me. When asked I merely said ‘I can’t answer hallucinations’. — TNS

‘Need FM, not blogger’

"We needed a minister and not a babble blogger. Jaitley’s desperation to stay relevant as a ‘court jester’ to the ‘Modi Sultanate’ is making him stoop to new levels daily." Randeep Surjewala, Cong spokesperson