BJP compares Shatrughan Sinha with Digvijay Singh
New Delhi, Aug 1: Pushed to the backfoot by the controversial remarks of its MP Shatrughan Sinha, BJP on Wednesday compared him with Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh saying it is best to ignore such leaders.
Asked about Sinha's comments that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose party JD(U) has walked out of the NDA, would make a good prime minister, BJP leader Uma Bharti said, "The biggest punishment for people like Digvijay Singh and Shatrughan Sinha is to ignore their comments, to not give them any importance."
"If
they
are
ignored
they
shut
up
on
their
own,"
Bharti
said,
adding
that
ignoring
them
also
defeats
their
designs.
Bharti,
who
is
a
BJP
vice
president,
said
no
significance
should
be
attached
to
what
such
leaders
say.
"We
do
not
give
any
importance
to
Sinha's
praise
or
his
criticism.
He
has
shot
(sic)
so
many
times.
The
disciplinary
committee
of
the
party
will
take
a
call,"
Bharti
said.
BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain maintained that party leaders should speak on the party forum and not voice their opinions outside.
Only those authorised to speak should do so, he said. "Every worker of the party sees Prime Minister potential in his leader. I can say with confidence that the next Prime Minister will be from the party to which Shatrughan Sinha belongs today and will unfurl the tricolour at Red Fort," Hussain said.
On Nitish Kumar being PM-material, he said only a party that can cross the 272 mark with its allies can form a government and at present BJP is the only party that seems to be in a position to attain this. Bharti maintained that relations with JD(U) may be strained today but "one cannot strangle those whom one was embracing for the last 17 years".
PTI