Robert Vadra slams Subramanian Swamy after waiter tweet: BJP leader says, 'focus on staying out of jail'

Taking a jibe at BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s recent tweet saying ‘ministers wearing coat and tie look like waiters’, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra said that Swamy’s comment undermined waiters who worked hard for a living by making condescending and derogatory remarks about them. Swamy on Friday tweeted:

BJP should direct our Ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes while abroad. In coat and tie they look like waiters

— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) June 24, 2016

Vadra, in a Facebook post, called Swamy ‘attention seeking’, ‘deplorable’ and ‘classist’. Vadra expressed outrage over Swamy’s comment which said ‘politicians in coat and tie look like waiters’ and claimed that the BJP leader was undermining waiters who work hard for a living. His post started with, “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.” He took a moral stand and dubbed Swamy’s comments discriminatory. “Undermining waiters who work hard for a living; making condescending and derogatory remarks about them is deplorable and classist…” he said.

Swamy would obviously not keep quiet and in a swift rebuttal advised Sonia’s son-in-law to concentrate on staying out of jail.

I think Mr.Vadra should concentrate on staying out of jail and not comment on political issues: Subramanian Swamy pic.twitter.com/Lq3GWh5nDN

— ANI (@ANI) June 25, 2016

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On Friday Subramanian Swamy had tweeted that the party should direct “ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes while abroad” and added by way of qualification that “in coat and tie they look like waiters.” In an apparent swipe at 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 on Friday, Swamy had asked BJP to advise ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian cloths when abroad. Vadra has been on the receiving end of many attacks from Swamy who has persistently maintained that Robert Vadra is corrupt and his business has proliferated because of his connections with the Gandhi family. “Vadra made a lot of money, it is called the Vadra school of management, but the dean of that school was (Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh) Hooda. He has to be prosecuted under Prevention of Corruption Act,” Swamy had said last month, according to ANI. Swamy has been active on Twitter over the last two-three days, attacking officials of the finance ministry and taking swipes at Jaitley. Though no action has been taken against him, BJP leaders say they are upset by his attacks and are taking a serious view of the matter. Party sources said there was concern in the organisation and the leadership over the unbridled criticism aimed at the finance ministry and today’s threat of a “bloodbath” over being asked to be disciplined. But the fact that party and Sangh parivar leaders are not united behind any particular course of action is evident with sources saying they would adopt a wait- and-watch attitude for the time being. A senior BJP leader sought to dispel the impression that Swamy, who is said to enjoy the support of RSS, has the backing of the Sangh Parivar fountainhead, claiming RSS would not support such an open attack that harms the government’s and party’s image. With inputs from PTI