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This pro-Modi tweet by Shatrughan raised many an eyebrow. Those in the BJP did not wait for a minute to slam him in no uncertain terms. Others in the Congress, too, felt let down by a self-styled ‘heavyweight’ …
A couple of days back, rumour mill was abuzz with the theory that actor-turned-politician and former MP from Patna Sahib, Shatrughan Sinha, was preparing ground for ‘ghar wapsi’ (home-coming). The genesis of this wide speculation was his Sunday tweet in which he had said about a “new variant of people who remained unhappy with Modi without any valid reason.”
This pro-Modi tweet by Shatrughan raised many an eyebrow. Those in the BJP did not wait for a minute to slam him in no uncertain terms. Others in the Congress, too, felt let down by a self-styled ‘heavyweight’ who threw his weight behind the Congress after joining the grand old party on the eve of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
His latest tweet was in sharp contradiction to Shatrughan’s constant jibe at the top BJP leadership when he earlier called his former party as a “one-man show and two-men Army”, without naming either Narendra Modi or Amit Shah
His latest tweet was in sharp contradiction to Shatrughan’s constant jibe at the top BJP leadership when he earlier called his former party as a “one-man show and two-men Army”, without naming either Narendra Modi or Amit Shah.
As his pro-Modi tweet kicked up a storm, Shatrughan cleared the air that “the tweet was a Sunday humour” and he had no such desire to change colours for greener pastures.
“It was a Sunday humour… Just for entertainment. No political meaning should be derived from them, as I have no desire to change sides,” clarified Shatru, who dumped the BJP and joined Congress two years back.
The four-term MP (twice as BJP’s Rajya Sabha member and twice as BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Patna Sahib in 2009 and 2014) has rubbed many of his colleagues, both in the Tinsel Town as well as Indian polity, the wrong way. From casting aspersions on his rival Amitabh Bachchan to the top BJP leadership, Shatru has made more enemies than friends.
The 75-year-old Patna-born politician, who went on to become India’s first Cabinet Minister from Bollywood (Vinod Khanna was MoS in Vajpayee regime, and Sunil Dutt became a Cabinet Minister during the UPA regime), could have survived and thrived in the rough and tumble of Indian politics by being more diplomatic but he chose to create more ‘Shatrus’ by being a loudmouth and giving politically incorrect statements which eventually led to his nemesis.
Ask any senior Congressmen about him, and they look towards him with utter contempt and suspicion. “These days, Shatrughan remains more busy praising Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar, Yashwant Sinha, Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati, Tejashwi and Arvind Kejriwal. When he was in the BJP, he would slam his own partymen (other than LK Advani) and, therefore, sealed his fate. He is doing the same when in Congress,” summed up the Delhi-based senior Congress functionary.