Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy is not known to pull his punches. Nor does he mince words. No office seemed too high for his criticism.
No public personality was insulated from his barbs. Fuelled by his 2.82 million Twitter followers, whom he fondly calls PTs (Patriotic Tweeple), the Scud of Sholavandan ( his ancestral village near Madurai) was firing on all cylinders after tasting success with R3, his code name for RBI governor Raghuram Rajan. While Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s clothes came into the line of fire, lesser mortals like bureaucrats ...
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