Smriti Irani's speech in the Lok Sabha was intense, fiery and also high on rhetoric. While that ensured she trended on social media for at least two days, it has also got her brickbats, and some rebuttals. Some of the rather explosive statements she made seemed to have put the opposition on back-foot then, but are now being fired back at her. Here's a list of such controversies that are now awaiting a response from Irani: That nobody cared to call a doctor to examine Rohith Vemula's body Irani’s claim: Rohith Vemula’s body was not taken to a doctor after he was found hanging inside his friend’s room in the university campus on January 17. The minister claimed no medical aid was provided to Vemula nor was any effort was made to revive him . Counter: Dr M Rajshree, the Hyderabad Central University’s medical officer, who was on duty then said she was the one who examined the body and declared him dead at 7.30pm. “I am a medical doctor and I have enough experience and competence to examine and determine if a person can be revived. In my opinion, Rohith was dead for probably 2-3 hours by the time he was found,” she told Indian Express. Rohith's brother Raja too countered the claim at a press conference in Delhi on Thursday, "I reached the university at 8.30 pm. I can personally verify that a doctor and policemen were inside."

That the pamphlet she read out from was circulated by Mahishasur Divas organisers at JNU.

Irani's claim: She has read from a pamphlet about controversial references to Goddess Durga allegedly distributed at JNU in which Goddess Durga is depicted as a 'sex worker'.

Counter: Anil Kumar, a student organiser of the Mahishasur Martyrdom Day in JNU in 2014, said, Irani was lying. "The pamphlet that Smriti Irani was reading in Parliament on Wednesday was not written by me or any of my mates. The pamphlet she is seen holding in the speech is a colourful one which is never used in any JNU protest due to high printing costs. It is a fake document and the minister is lying," he told media.