Firing a fresh salvo at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Bihar poll debacle, disgruntled BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha has said the “credit” for the seats won by the party in the state goes to Mr Modi
Firing a fresh salvo at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Bihar poll debacle, disgruntled BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha has said the “credit” for the seats won by the party in the state goes to Mr Modi and claimed that his attack on Lalu Prasad Yadav backfired.
Mr Sinha also said that Bihar voters had understood that the announcement of economic package by Mr Modi was a “poll gimmick”.
“All the credit goes to Modiji for the number of seats won by the BJP in Bihar and there should not be any doubt about it,” Mr Sinha said while taking a jibe at the PM.
The actor-turned-politician, who had been sulking after he was left out of the electioneering, said it was because of the “aggressive campaigning” by Mr Modi that the BJP fetched 53 seats.
“Probably Modi was kept in dark about ground realities in Bihar by the party leadership. Outsiders were at the helm of affairs for electioneering, whereas ‘Bihari babu’ (referring to himself), whom people of Patna sent to Parliament by a margin of lakhs, was deliberately kept out of the campaign, which also people (voters) took seriously and defeated BJP,” Mr Sinha told a select group of mediapersons here on Saturday night.
Moreover, on Sunday, defending his remarks, Mr Sinha said that he has only spoken the “truth”.
“If voicing the truth is an act of revolt then yes I am guilty of being a rebel. I have always spoken in the interest of the party and the nation. If some people misconstrued for rebellion then I am a rebel,” Mr Sinha said at the function here.
