AAP's Ashish Khetan hits back: Did Prashant Bhushan make his money from PIL industry?
"The Bhushan family has over Rs 500 crore worth property. I want to know whether this has been earned through PILs. If this is the case, then filing PIL is a big industry," Khetan said
After expelled Aam Aadmi Party leader Prashant Bhushan accused Ashish Khetan of indulging in paid news, the former Tehelka journalist hit back at the senior Supreme Court lawyer, questioning the source of his wealth and calling the filing of Public Interest Litigations an industry.Read: AAP has become a Khap Panchayat, says expelled leader Prashant Bhushan
"The Bhushan family has over Rs 500 crore worth property. I want to know whether this has been earned through PILs. If this is the case, then filing PIL is a big industry," Khetan said on Tuesday. Bhushan, a senior Supreme Court lawyer, is one of India's best-known public interest litigants.
Last night, the AAP expelled Bhushan and his fellow dissidents, Yogendra Yadav, Professor Anand Kumar and Professor Ajit Jha for anti-party activities after the rebel held a Swaraj Samwad in Gurgaon last week in defiance of the party's orders.
Their expulsion came shortly after Bhushan and Yadav blasted the party top leadership in their replies to the show-cause notices issued by the party. Bhushan and Yadav had described the notice as a "pre-scripted drama where the outcome is already decided and well-known".
In his reply, Bhushan had accused Khetan of indulging in paid news when he worked for Tehelka magazine. "Ashish Khetan had writted on the 2G scam in Tehelka magazine. Later, the Essar group paid the magazine Rs 3 crore for its ThinkFest," he said.