By IANS,
New Delhi : Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha, a former finance and foreign minister, Wednesday preferred to keep mum over the recent storm in the party following the expulsion of Jaswant Singh and Arun Shourie’s diatribe against the party leadership.
“Sorry. I don’t have any comments to make,” Sinha told IANS when asked about the developments surrounding the sack of former defence, finance and external affairs minister Jaswant Singh for his book “Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence”.
Sinha also preferred silence on another party leader Arun Shourie criticising the BJP top brass and asking the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the party’s ideological parent, to play a more active role in selecting BJP leaders.
Sinha was one of those who had gone public with his criticism of the party leadership following the general election debacle.
The BJP is contemplating whether or not to initiate disciplinary action against Shourie, who on Monday had created a flutter by calling his party a “kati patang (a kite adrift)” and its chief Rajnath Singh “Humpty Dumpty”. The party Tuesday sought his “clarification” for his remarks.