Karti, is a grown up, can speak for himself: Subramanian Swamy taunts P Chidambaram

A day after former finance minister P Chidambaram strongly spoke in defence of his son Karti Chidambaram, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy slammed the former, saying that Karti, being a married person with a family, is grown up enough to speak for himself.

“What is pathetic is that this man (Chidambaram) should know that he is now grown up enough to have a son, who is married and produced a child. Why should he speak on his (Karti) behalf. He can speak on his own behalf but he cannot speak on his son’s behalf. Why does his son evade the summons of the Enforcement Directorate (ED)? Why can’t he go and say this before the ED? Therefore, Chidambaram has got the fright and he is making all kinds of silly statements,” Swamy told ANI.

Countering Chidamabaram’s Rs. 10 lakh gratification amount claim, Swamy said that funds came for other companies also.

“The issue is that because of his father, immediately afterwards the gainers paid money to him (Karti) in his consulting firms. He may say Rs. 10 lakh, but that is only in one company. Rs. 3 crore came for that chess management company also,” Swamy said.

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