Minister Smriti Irani’s Fiery Speech in Parliament
NEW DELHI: Union Minister Smriti Irani is trending again on social media, this time for a fiery speech she broke into in Parliament in response to allegations of what opposition members called “saffronising” or giving a Hindu tinge to education.
Ms Irani, replying to a debate on the demand for grants for her human resource development ministry, offered a strong defence that included interjections in Bengali directed at members of the Congress and the Trinamool Congress.
“Aapni jokhon bolechhen, boshey shojjo korun. Aamar jobab aashete din. (If you have made allegations, then sit through my reply),” she said as Trinamool Congress MPs interrupted her.
New National Education Policy by December, Says Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani. The verbal clashes started when Trinamool’s Sugata Bose, a grand nephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, joined the Congress’ Sushmita Dev in criticising what they called bias in appointments to the Indian Council of Historical Research.
When Ms Irani responded, the Trinamool took exception to the fact that she called Mr Bose ‘that Professor’ and ‘pointed her finger’ at him.
“I know that she is facing tremendous pressure within her party but it is not right to refer to a respected academic in this way,” said Mr Bose’s colleague MP Saugato Roy, making an oblique reference to recent reports that Ms Irani may be dropped from the government as her party, the BJP, is not happy with her.
“I can tell you that I do not let any aggression affect my professional work and I’ll give you an instance of it,” Ms Irani responded, oratorical skills in full display.
Professor Bose wasn’t assuaged. Upset about being called “that professor”, he said Ms Irani had not built up a case for her ministry’s grants but focused on blaming the previous UPA government instead.
Earlier Shashi Tharoor, a former Minister of State for HRD, had criticised the government’s education policy to which Ms Irani brought up how the UPA had signed an MoU with Mauritius about Indian Institute of Technology
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