'I didn't sign affidavit': Chidambaram tweets clarification on Ishrat Jahan case

Ishrat Jahan’s ghost is back to haunt P Chidambaram, screamed the headlines. It was alleged that Chidambaram, during his tenure as Union Home Minister, had doctored the report about Ishrat Jahan to remove all references to the Lashkar-e-Taiba.  Firstpost’s Ajay Singh had contended that “the revelations of sarkari hanky-panky in the Ishrat Jahan affidavits filed before the Supreme Court” is an “inconvenient moment for Chidambaram that will not go away in a hurry”. On Monday, the first day of the second part of the Budget Session, Chidambaram took to social media to issue a point-by-point clarification: As is to be expected from an eminent lawyer, his opening remarks were a thunderclap of sorts:

  After which, he sought to quote another eminent personality (another play straight out of the lawyer’s handbook):

  And finally, support to the ’embattled’ Raghuram Rajan (as these tweets would attempt to portray the RBI governor):

  Now, on from the diversion to the issue at hand:

  Which brings us to the second affidavit:

Ipso facto ergo sum? Hopefully, we’ll find out as this second part of the Budget Session stumbles on.