‘Height of intolerance’ tweets Modi on Aditi restaurent row

Mumbai, 23 July 2013

Read:How Congress Men Shut Down the Restaurant

The Congress in Maharashtra was on the defensive in the state assembly on Tuesday after opposition BJP targeted the state government over a forceful shut down of Aditi restaurant by Congress MLA and city Youth Congress President because the restaurant in its cash memo criticised the scams happening in UPA government’s tenure. In its cash memo the restaurant blamed the government for a new tax on air-conditioned eateries claiming that food was expensive because of the hikes in taxes and scams such as 2G and Coalgate.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tweeted on this issue saying this was “height of intolerance” and posted a photo of the cash memo of the eatery. After Modi’s tweet, the Maharashtra Congress claimed that party activists only held demonstrations outside the restaurant and did not force it to shut down. The issue attracted major attention in the state assembly after it was discovered that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tweeted about ‘Congress’s intolerance with regard to the eatery in Mumbai’.

Even though the restaurant reopened on Tuesday, the bill slamming the tax on AC restaurants by UPA was discontinued. The owner of the eatery, Srinivas Shetty, refused to comment on the issue. The Congress workers had filed a complaint against the restaurant owner with the local police yesterday.

Height of Intolerance! http://t.co/j7q2J6DMKO #AditiRestaurant pic.twitter.com/oszKFyOx3P

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 23, 2013