Why ‘zip it’? Smriti Irani asks as she hits out at critics

• Smriti Irani said she worked up from the grassroots, but the minute she became HRD minister, she was termed illiterate.
• New Delhi: In the wake of a twitter spat with Bihar minister Ashok Choudhary and other controversies, Union HRD minister Smriti Irani has slammed critics and asserted that she is not a person who subscribes to the conventional wisdom of not responding to humiliations or provocations.
• In a Facebook post, which she signed off as “Aunty National” – an apparent reference to a newspaper’s headline about her – Irani stressed on the need to speak out one’s mind and hit out at “intellectuals” who called her “illiterate”.
• “Growing up in a middle class environment (Lutyen’s zone excluded), many girls, who would walk to school/college and back home every day, go to the bazaar to get groceries and adequate sabzi in a given budget, would often be told if accosted by a boy or a bunch of them, don’t look up and keep walking straight. Read More…

Why ‘zip it’? Smriti Irani asks as she hits out at critics