Why Ramachandra Guha is lashing out against Smriti Irani on Twitter
In this Aaj Tak interview: https://t.co/FyzSpQJ9iy (See from 21.02) @smritiirani makes a maliciously false statement about me. 1/7
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) June 11, 2015My IIAS talk was at Delhi, not Shimla, and it was on Mahatma Gandhi and Banaras, not (as @smritiirani claims) an attack on the PM. 2/7
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) June 11, 2015I have never made any speech anywhere attacking Mr Modi, though I have written articles critical of him, and of MMS, and of Rahul G 3/7
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) June 11, 2015Contrary to what @smritiirani suggests, Teesta Setalvad was not a special invitee to my IIAS lecture on Gandhi and Banaras 4/7
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) June 11, 2015The IIAS lecture was in memory of S. Radhakrishnan; I gave a scholarly talk, not (as @smritiirani claims) a political diatribe 5/7
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) June 11, 2015In sum @smritiirani 's claims that I attacked the PM under the auspices of an Institute under her control is a plain lie. 6/7
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) June 11, 2015By her falsehoods, @smritirani has thus also dishonoured a scholar and Indian far greater than myself, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. (7/7)
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) June 11, 2015