Reacting sharply to senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya’s observatiopn about party MP Shatrughan Sinha by drawing similarity between him and a dog on Monday, shotgun retorted with an idiom on his twitter handle.
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Sinha, who has been severely critical of BJP leadership, particularly those in the state unit, after he was left out of the campaign for the state Assembly polls, said he was not aware if any action was being contemplated against him, but rejected suggestions that he was a “shatru” (enemy) of the party. But the Prime Minister should not have campaigned so much and we should have been allowed to help him in sharing his burden.
Sinha said he considers Kumar to be a “very good and respectable leader” after former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, and termed today’s meeting as one that should be viewed in healthy sportsman spirit.
Shatrughan Sinha with Nitish Kumar at 7 Circular Road. I am the original Bihari Babu, the son of the soil. “If the party thinks my utility is there, then I am with my party…to strengthen the hands of our prime minister, our dashing and dynamic Narendra Modi”. “We could have definitely got more seats than what we got”, he told Rajat Sharma in “Aap ki Adalat” programme on IndiaTV, according to a press release issued by the channel. “But, if at all, somebody wants to take action, I can not prevent it”.
Union Minister V K Singh had kicked up a huge political row when he tried to shield the NDA government from blame in the Faridabad Dalit burning incident, saying the government can not be held responsible if somebody stones a dog.
The NDA got just 58 seats in a House of 243.
Responding to a question about Sinha calling Nitish Kumar a “successful” chief minister, the BJP secretary general said, “Dog runs after the auto feeling it’s running because of him, but it’s not”. He said they were brought in from Punjab, Maharashtra and Delhi and “were completely out of touch with grassroots workers and ground reality, who did not understand the caste equations here”.
“Shah Rukh Khan lives in India, but his heart is in Pakistan”.
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However, after being heavily criticised for his remarks, the BJP leader deleted his tweet.
