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Why state legal aid for Amit Shah’s son, asks Rahul Gandhi
Continuing his relentless attack, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi once again took to Twitter to take a dig at the BJP and the Central government over the latter extending legal help to party chief Amit Shah’s son in a defamation case he has filed against a news website over a report about his financial dealings.
“State legal help for Shah-Zada why this, why this Kolaveri Di,” the Gandhi scion tweeted.
Backing it up, Mr Gandhi also tweeted in Hindi, saying, “Shah-Zada ko satta ka kanooni sahara, jhanda uncha rahe hamara.” He also tagged a copy of a story of the news portal that shows an interim injunction order to not to publish, print the story regarding the son of BJP president Amit Shah.
The Web portal on October 8 had published a story on a company linked to Mr Jay Shah seeing a huge jump in turnover after the saffron party came to power at the Centre in 2014.
Mr Jay Shah has filed a criminal defamation case
State legal help for Shah-Zada why this, why this Kolaveri Di
Rahul Gandhi, Congress V-P
in a metropolitan court in Ahmedabad against the portal, its journalists and the company that runs it. Additional solicitor-general Tushar Mehta has been granted government permission to represent him in the case.
In the recently-concluded campaigning tour of Gujarat Mr Gandhi attacked the BJP with the issue and demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He also tweeted asking the Prime Minister whether he was a “watchman or a partner”. In the last couple of weeks, Mr Gandhi has been very active on Twitter and has been taking on the government and the PM. In a tweet on Monday morning also, Mr. Gandhi had issued a “weather report” ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit to Gujarat. The tweet of Mr. Gandhi said “Weather report: Ahead of elections, Gujarat will today have rain of rhetoric,” he said on Twitter, using the phrase “jumlon ki baarish” in his Hindi tweet. The Congress vice president also tagged a report headlined “As Gujarat waits for poll date, state gets projects worth nearly `12,500 crore” with his tweet.