Swamy defends his ‘right to tweet’

Refuting allegations that he was trying to influence the proceedings in the National Herald case with his tweets, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday told a Delhi court that he did not remember the social media posts cited by the Congress.

Mr. Swamy was responding to Congress leader Motilal Vora’s application seeking the court’s order to restrain him from tweeting about the case in which Mr. Vora is an accused along with his party chief Rahul Gandhi and mother Sonia Gandhi.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader told the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal that he was afraid that the tweets cited by Mr. Vora may have been tampered with, but maintained that he had every right to tweet.

The copies of tweets are not admissible under law and do not count as evidence to press on their application, he added.