Privilege notice issued against Rahul Gandhi for Jaitlie tweet

Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu has issued a privilege notice against Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his tweet targeting Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley which seemed as deliberate misspelling of his surname as 'Jaitlie'.

Sources said that the matter was likely to be referred to the privilege committee.

"Dear Mr Jaitlie - thank you for reminding India that our PM never means what he says or says what he means," read Rahul Gandhi's Tweet.

Rahul posted the tweet along with a video clip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election speech made during election campaign in Gujarat.

Dear Mr Jaitlie - thank you for reminding India that our PM never means what he says or says what he means. #BJPLiespic.twitter.com/I7n1f07GaX

- Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) December 27, 2017

The clip showed PM Modi talking about former prime minister Manmohan Singh, former vice president Hamid Ansari (though the PM does not name him), Pakistan high commissioner and its former foreign secretary holding a "secret meeting" at suspended Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's residence in New Delhi.

Incidentally, Rahul Gandhi today yet again took a swipe at Arun Jaitley. In a tweet he alleged that alleged the finance minister's "genius" combined with Modi's "Gross Divisive Politics (GDP)" had given a 13-year low in new investments.

He claimed the fiscal deficit had increased and projects had been stalled.

Rahul Gandhi's comments followed GDP growth estimates released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) stating that the country's economy was likely to grow at 6.5 per cent during the current fiscal. This is the lowest GDP growth rate figures in four years.