#Congress demands #SmritiIrani be sacked over her daughter’s #SillySoul’s bar issue where she obtained a bar license of a dead person.
The controversy was that Smriti Irani’s daughter obtained a bar license in the name of a person who was dead, and demanded that Smriti Irani be sacked. Speaking at a press conference, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said “there are serious allegations of corruption against Smriti Irani’s family”. “In a restaurant being run by her daughter, there is a bar. Though as per the culture of the party Smriti ji comes from the Bar must be a ‘sanskari’ one… The license of the bar is in name of a person who died in May 2021, and in 2022, the license was issued in the name of a person who had died 13 months ago.”
Goa: Smriti Irani’s family restaurant gets notice for allegedly holding an illegal bar license
https://t.co/MGJIKZbE0e pic.twitter.com/DXUOdGKxMs— Facts check (@Facts_chek) July 23, 2022
Here’s from recent archives: “On Wednesday, Irani took to Instagram to share food writer Kunal Vijaykar’s positive review for Silly Souls Restaurant – the Goa eatery owned by her daughter Zoish Irani.” https://t.co/pdG7FxYNWW
— Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 (@Pawankhera) July 23, 2022
He went on to say, “As per law in Goa, one restaurant can get only one bar license… This restaurant got two licenses,” he said. Khaira said they did not have a license to run the restaurant. “Can you or I dream of doing such things? The children of your supporters are playing ‘Lulu mall’, fighting over Hanuman Chalisa and Namaz… your children are getting educated abroad or doing illegal activities under your patronage”.
He said, “We want to ask Smriti ji, the office who gave notice that this bar is being transferred… if it is happening without the interference or influence of Smriti ji? Did they get this license without her patronage?” questioned Khera. He also said bouncers have been deputed around the bar in Goa to stop journalists from going there.
“Smriti Irani, who was asking all kinds of questions to Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, I want to ask her, you can run a bar illegally, we can’t run a newspaper?” he said. “We demand from the Prime Minister that with immediate effect Smriti Zubin Irani should be dismissed from the cabinet, Smriti Zubin Irani who had sought resignation from the Chief Minister of Gujarat on 12th December 2004….” he said.
Congress’ General Secretary Communication Jairam Ramesh said they will raise the issue in Parliament as well. As per reports, information obtained under the Right To Information (RTI) Act by Aires Rodrigues, an excise license was illegally issued to the bar and restaurant at Assagao purportedly linked to Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani’s family, in the name of one Anthony D’Gama in 2021. In June 2022 the license was renewed in Gama’s name after he passed away.
Later, Smiti Irani allegedly denied that her daughter does not run any Silly Souls Bar restaurant raising much furor from the Congress party.
April 2022: So proud of my daughter for her Silly Souls Bar & Restaurant
July 2022: My daughter is a student who doesn’t run any Bar & Restaurant
In 3 months, Smriti has completely forgotten what her daughter does!
FEKU will be really proud of her lying & acting skills today.
— Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) July 23, 2022