Veteran Congress leader & Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist Mani Shankar Aiyar Tuesday is back in the news.
First, he justified the neech aadmi (lowly man) casteist slur he had directed at PM Modi in 2017. In an article he wrote for The Print, Aiyar wrote “Remember how I described him on 7 December 2017? Was I not prophetic?”
Then when TV reporters met him at the Punjab government guest house in Shimla and questioned him over the article, he made fists and threatened to hit a News 18 reporter before telling him to “f*** off”. He also warned the reporter not to ask any more questions.
In a video of the incident which has gone viral, the reporter can be seen retreating hastily saying “Sorry, Sorry, Sorry” while Aiyar advances menacingly pushing the reporter’s microphone away.
Q: Neech Kaun Hai?
A: #ManiShankarAiyarWatch it till the end. pic.twitter.com/jOafpghM7J
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) May 14, 2019
Aiyar also called the Prime Minister a coward for ‘not talking to the media’ and called him the most “foul-mouthed” prime minister the country has seen.