Nyay is just an empty word for Rahul Congress - Pranab Mukherjee

Former president of India Pranab Mukherjee's daughter and former Congress leader, Sharmistha Mukherjee says, "‘Nyay’ is just an empty word for Rahul Congress. Not a single Congress leader has tweeted condemning those nasty tweets. They are most welcome to disagree or criticise my views, but no one has a right to abuse.", in a post in X.

Before this Sharmistha Mukherjee has written to Rahul Gandhi claiming that his supporters subjected her and her late father to “vicious and continuous trolling” on social media after the release of her book ‘Pranab My Father: A Daughter Remembers’.

“The book contains some observations about you made in my father’s diaries which are not very complimentary. However, as you seem to be a torchbearer of freedom of expression, you should know that FoE (freedom of expression) involves not just praising someone, but also the ability to tolerate criticism gracefully. But you seem to have failed miserably to convince even your own followers of one of the most crucial rights granted by our Constitution, which is also one of the core values of Congress,” Sharmistha wrote in her letter to the Congress MP, which she made public Friday.

In a recent post in X she wrote, "Peddler of ‘Mohabbat’ has completely failed to find any buyers for his goods even among his most ardent followers. Perhaps he can’t comprehend that ‘mohabbat’ can’t be bought & sold in a shop".

She added, “Your favourite slogan of ‘Nafrat ke Bazaar me Mohabbat ki Dukan’ also seems to fall on deaf ears of your own followers as they unleash all their ‘Nafrat’ on anyone daring to criticise you.”

The former party leader also mentioned that a particular X user, Naveen Shahi, “followed by several senior Congress leaders like Pawan Khera, Ajay Maken, Srinivas BV and many other verified handles from INC Social Media dept” abused her father and her “in such vile language that I feel nausea even to repeat it”.

Referring to Rahul Gandhi’s ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, she wrote, “You are talking about Nyay (justice). As an ordinary citizen of India, I demand Nyay from you as these vile abuses seem to have originated with someone having a formal or informal association with your organisation. I demand Nyay as a woman, who herself, and whose father (leaving aside the fact that he was a former President of India) have been subjected to character assassination and the most vile abuses having sexual connotations.”