New Delhi, June 24: An edge-of-the-seat potboiler, scripted by Lalit Modi, is trending on Twitter for the past two days.
"So all those are on a witch hunt - time to know you all live in (a) glass house. By the way I document every meeting when someone asks for a bribe and I circulate to my lawyers xyz has asked for this in exchange for this. Off course I never paid. But record I did," the disgraced cricket czar tweeted on Tuesday.
With thinly-veiled threats such as these, his Twitter handle @LalitKModi has become a page-turner - and now has 900,000 followers compared to 500,000 two weeks ago when Sushma Swaraj's help to him was first revealed.
Since the expose, Modi has been tweeting almost every hour - taking a break to confer with lawyers, have dinner with his daughters or to catch sleep.
On June 22, when @LalitKModi was trending not only in India but also in the UK, entrepreneur Gaurav Wankhede who had been following his tweets all day seemed tired and wrote: "@LalitKModi, when will you let us go to sleep, it's 2:20 am here in India."
Modi, who was last seen on television being interviewed in the picturesque mountains of Montenegro, shot back: "In time of war the general never sleeps. You have to be ready for the unexpected."
He has proved a master at keeping his Twitter followers wanting more, luring them with lines such as "See date carefully. Keep at the back of your head" and asking them to remember names mentioned in tweets to link to information he will provide later.
"I have record book 4 each and every ticket seat no wise. What value it was and who paid for it cash or check or free," wrote Modi.
In the corridors of power, the handle has everyone hooked. Sources said senior ministers and former ministers are logging in to check the "latest from Lalit".
Modi, who is wanted by the Enforcement Directorate for economic offences and who has had his passport revoked earlier, has meanwhile positioned himself as a crusader against corruption in politics. A line added to his Twitter profile reads: "Busy cleaning Political Mafia."
He has gone after Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, asking him to "tell the truth, for once".
"Bureaucrats #public #servants please also declare if you have taken any favor, hospitality cash etc etc from #modi family in the past," he tweeted.
"While we are cleaning up - let's not leave the BABUS who have been quietly siphoning or blackmailing all of us like in ED and IT DEPARTMEMTS."
The threat is extended to all those who have called him a fugitive. "All those who keep #referring to me as #fugitive I will sue you all one by one. Call me that if there is even one proof or get ready to pay," he tweeted.
He has also demanded that the Congress come clean on its association with the "Modi family".
"My specific query to Congress Party - specifically -has the Modi Group or as a matter of fact any group ever provided you any of your MP's any hospitality, favors, election funding, rides on planes, hotel, cars, dinners, plants in your constituency etc etc," he tweeted.
Maya Singh, a Canada-based homemaker, said: "I love this character. He is good in playing game at his own term he has made political game so interesting now.@LalitKModi."
Filmmaker Pritish Nandy tweeted today: "Whether you like @LalitKModi or not, follow his twitter ID. It's explosive."
IT consultant Tarun Chaturvedi spouted a Sholay dialogue: " Chun chun ke marega .... aane do (He will eliminate them one by one, let them come)."
Modi is quick to agree.
"You are correct. Slowly slowly I will start to bury this so called BCCI / FM / mafia. Time is on my side," he responded.
"News channels and politicians have had 5 years. Let me enjoy this too. They said whatever - my turn."
Declaring war on his rivals, Modi said he was a master at it. "I did not start this war. But I am master at the art of war. So now don't blame me for collateral damage. That's just what war does," he tweeted.
