Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said AAP members like Raghav Chadha have defamed him by re-tweeting Arvind Kejriwal’s tweets.
Jaitley made this statement inside the Patiala House Court while recording his statement before the magistrate for the defamation cases filed by him against Delhi CM and five other AAP leaders.
Soon after the statement was publicized by the media, social media was abuzz with it.
Jaitley has filed a separate civil and criminal defamation against Kejriwal, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh, Kumar Vishwas, Raghav Chadha and Deepak Bajpai after the DDCA row erupted in last December when the CBI raided the office of the Principal Secretary of the Delhi government.
After the raids, Kejriwal alleged that the agency was actually interested in files related to the misappropriation in DDCA a body of which Jaitley headed for more than a decade.
Reaction of Jaitley after seeing #RT2DefameJaitley trending.. @DrKumarVishwas @Saurabh_MLAgk @LambaAlka @vikaskyogi pic.twitter.com/VfX1FpbumE
— Naresh Pradhan (@NareshPradhan5) January 5, 2016 The next time i dig up old tweets of politicians and RT them, i could be sued for defamation _/\_ #RT2DefameJaitley https://t.co/2kYseHKwV3
— Tinu Cherian Abraham (@tinucherian) January 5, 2016 Dear @arunjaitley I will retweet everything that exposes your lies! #RT2DefameJaitley https://t.co/ippIWmzJZ4
— Ankit Lal (@ankitlal) January 5, 2016 Wondering if an RT defames more or a pinned tweet achieves more maanhaani? *shuts account* *moves to somalia* #RT2DefameJaitley
— Cowshed_Optics (@PM_Travel_Tours) January 5, 2016 A cabinet minister and a lawyer abusing the legal system #RT2DefameJaitley https://t.co/F7GsughhvH
— Denzil Correa (@denzil_correa) January 5, 2016 Raghav @raghav_chadha Gonna RT Again❗ #RT2DefameJaitley pic.twitter.com/2EykcGVPkV
— सम.विषम.गाय™ (@AAPVind) January 5, 2016 File defamation case against me because i also RTed the tweets of @ArvindKejriwal #RT2DefameJaitley https://t.co/iEoY2bFfXR
— Kejriwal Fan Club (@KejriwalFanCIub) January 5, 2016 With 1981 re-tweets ok AK, Jaitley stands to make 19,810 crores @ 10 crore per defamation! #RT2DefameJaitley Yahi toh Scam hai ji !!
— AAP Ka Mehta (@DaaruBaazMehta) January 5, 2016 If he had to file defamation suit against someone, it should have been against people of Amritsar !! #RT2DefameJaitley #LSElections2014
— punjAAP !! (@AapKiQasam) January 5, 2016 And then he said @raghav_chadha defamed me by RTing @ArvindKejriwal 's tweet #RT2DefameJaitley pic.twitter.com/pRTH4zr0ni
— कोमल :) (@Komal_Indian) January 5, 2016 So sue all of us AAPians, sirji, why don't you? #RT2DefameJaitley
— Krishan Partap Singh (@RaisinaSeries) January 5, 2016 Phir phir phir...usne Kejriwal ka tweet RT kiya aur mujhe defame kar diya #RT2DefameJaitley pic.twitter.com/Kbk6GlCeSh
— कोमल :) (@Komal_Indian) January 5, 2016