After Shatrughan Sinha, more voices of protest emerges within BJP

Patna: Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Tuesday reacted sharply to party colleague Kailash Vijayvargiya’s dog analogy on him even as more disgruntled voices emerged from within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over its massive defeat in polls in Bihar.

“People want my reaction to Vijayvargiya’s remark. My reaction to small or big flies in any party is “Many bark but the caravan moves on,” Shatrughan Sinha said in his tweet message as a sharp riposte to BJP general secretary’s remark.

BJP Lok Sabha member from Patna Sahib, Sinha popularly known as ‘Bihari Babu’, has been vocal throughout Bihar elections raising weakness of the party and praising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad, which left party leaders in a difficult situation.

On Monday he went to meet Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal President Lalu Prasad to congratulate them on grand secular alliance landslide victory in elections.

Sinha’s utterances triggered vicious comment from senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya who likened him to a dog.

Sinha had on Monday claimed the Bihar poll results could have been different for his party had he been projected as the chief ministerial candidate.

“I am not bragging, but I do feel that when the darling of Bihar people, the son of the soil and the original ‘Bihari babu’ was deliberately sidelined, it definitely had an impact on my supporters and fans.

Meanwhile, BJP MP from Begusarai Bhola Singh said, “BJP not only lost in Bihar but got drowned in knee-deep water.”

Senior BJP leader and Union minister Uma Bharti said the issue of beef was “tossed up” in the elections and along with that the “subject of intolerance was spread in a big way”.

“And at that time too, some leaders also indulged in making statements. I feel that it was a complete planned and manufactured packaging.

“I believe that, to influence the Bihar elections, Shatrughan Sinha made statements at that time and those statements became a part of the packaging,” she said.