Dr. Rajan Mahtani’s long-standing friendship with Levy Mwanawasa is known to everyone. This friendship went back even before Levy Mwanawasa became the president of Zambia and remained intact till the untimely demise of the former president. Even during the difficult time, Dr. Rajan Mahtani provided several support to the Mwanawasa family. As a result, the social media post shared by Miriam Mwanawasa, daughter of the late Ex-President of Zambia was shocking to everyone. In a Facebook post shared to the public, Miriam Mwanawasa claimed that Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani wanted to inherit their farm land at the Masaiti District. As a result if the nature of the accusation and the individuals associated with it, the Facebook post became viral and started making rounds in the internet. It was then this social media post caught the attention of Dr. Rajan Mahtani and his lawyers when they realised the reputational, professional and business-related damaged this post has been doing since it was posted in the social media channel.

Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani decided to act against this post. A press release was released addressing the media and clarify this misunderstanding. In this press release, Dr. Rajan Mahtani clearly stated that even though he had a long-standing personal friendship with Late Levy Mwanawasa, this friendship was extremely transparent. Furthermore, Dr. Rajan Mahtani never made any claims or requests to the Mwanawasa family regarding taking over their farmland. Dr. Rajan Mahtani also said that Miriam Mwanawasa did not have any proof or evidence to claim her accusations. As such, these accusations were regarded as malicious, ludicrous and made with the objective of ruining the reputation of an honest citizen and businessman in Zambia. Dr. Rajan Mahtani also said that he will be taking stringent actions against this Facebook post to ensure that people or groups are not encouraged to take similar unethical and unlawful actions in future.