Mumbai: Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy's lecture in Mumbai to mark the 41st anniversary of the Emergency was cancelled today.
The lecture was scheduled to take place at a private college in South Mumbai.
Mr Swamy was featured as the main speaker of the programme, titled "Emergency-Lessons for the Future", to which Maharashtra BJP chief Raosaheb Danve and Mumbai city chief Ashish Shelar along with other leaders were invited.
However, when asked, Mumbai city chief Ashish Shelar told news agency PTI, "It was Mumbai BJP that decided to cancel the programme".
Very recently, Mr Swamy had hit out at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian and Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikant Das. His remarks reportedly not gone down well with the BJP.
The lecture was scheduled to take place at a private college in South Mumbai.
Mr Swamy was featured as the main speaker of the programme, titled "Emergency-Lessons for the Future", to which Maharashtra BJP chief Raosaheb Danve and Mumbai city chief Ashish Shelar along with other leaders were invited.
However, when asked, Mumbai city chief Ashish Shelar told news agency PTI, "It was Mumbai BJP that decided to cancel the programme".
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Very recently, Mr Swamy had hit out at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian and Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikant Das. His remarks reportedly not gone down well with the BJP.
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