“Friends, I will not speak about Shah’s son nor allow others to speak),” Gandhi said in a tweet.
Gandhi apparently punned on Modi’s famous lines “na khaoonga, na khane doonga (Will not indulge in corruption nor allow others to indulge in it).”
The Congress leader attached a news report on ‘The Wire’ being barred from writing on Jay Shah to protect his ‘right to live with dignity’ along with his tweet.
The report in The Indian Express said that an Ahmedabad court last week passed an order barring news website The Wire from publishing any further report on Jay Shah’s business turnover.
Gandhi had last week also taunted the BJP, alleging “state legal help” in Jay Shah’s legal battle with the news portal.
The Congress leader has been relentlessly attacking the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah over a news report that alleged Jay Shah’s company’s turnover increased 16,000 times in a year after Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014.
The Congress has sought an inquiry into the issue by sitting Supreme Court judges.
The BJP has rubbished the allegation saying Jay Shah’s business was perfectly legitimate and legal. The party has also rejected Congress allegations of crony capitalism.
With Gandhi gaining more than 1mn followers on Twitter in the past three months, the party yesterday said that his tweets laced with satire are resonating with the people of the country.
The party also said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders use bad language against Gandhi and other senior Congress leaders but the party never uses defamatory words on the social networking site.
“Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has been tweeting for some time now. Twitter is a medium where you raise your voice,” said Congress spokesperson R P N Singh.
“Satire is also a good form of reaching out to the people. It makes it more interesting. I think the office of the (Congress) vice president has used it to good effect and it is something which is resonating with the people of this country because he has been raising the very issues which touch the people of this country.
“The people are completely aware that this is what the problem with this country is and the prime minister’s false promises... people have lost patience. And that is why there is so much resonance,” he added.
Singh said on Twitter, Congress leaders have always used language which is above board and “we never hit below the belt or used words which are defamatory. The bad language that we see are continuously used by BJP leaders against Gandhi or our senior leaders”.
