Arun Jaitley-Rahul Gandhi’s twitter battle on ease of business report

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi used a Mirza Ghalib couplet and BJP leader Arun Jaitley some deft wordplay, each hitting out at the other party over conflicting views on the World Bank’s report on ‘ease of doing business’.

A day after the World Bank released its report that India had improved its ranking, Twitter was once again the playing field for the Congress and the BJP leaders. Gandhi put out a tweet in Urdu, taking off from a famous Ghalib verse to say the Union finance minister was deluding himself.

“Sabko maloom hai ‘ease of doing business’ ki haqeeqat, lekin khud ko khush rakhne ke liye ‘Dr Jaitley’ ye khayal achha hai (everybody knows the reality of ease of doing business, but this thought, Dr Jaitley, is good to keep yourself happy).”

Jaitley said the UPA’s “ease of doing corruption” has been replaced by NDA’s “ease of doing business”, apparently hitting back at Gandhi’s jibe. “The difference between the UPA and NDA – ‘The ease of doing corruption has been replaced by the ease of doing business’,” he said in his tweet.