Other leaders would have felt dwarfed: Shatrughan
15 April 2015 5:38 AM IST
While Sinha said he has not received any invitation to the programme, MP Ashwani Choubey, former state minister during the NDA rule, was not allowed to sit on the stage.
“Neither party president Amit Shah nor the BJP state leadership invited me to the function,” Sinha, BJP second term Lok Sabha member from Patna Saheb, told a news agency. “My name or photograph does not figure in any of the banners, hoardings and posters despite being a city MP,” he said over phone from his Mumbai residence.
He claimed state leaders were trying to keep him away as they would be “dwarfed due to my presence”. He, however, did not name any leader.
Asked if BJP would win the Assembly polls without him, the party’s star campaigner for long wished them luck.
On the absence of Sinha’s name in posters, senior party leader Sushil Kumar Modi said those were put up by individuals and not by the party.
Choubey went to the programme but security personnel did not allow him to go inside protected area in his car as his name did not figure in the list of persons to be seated on the dais. After a brief argument with securitymen, Choubey left the venue in a huff. He, however, later returned later on and sat with workers in the last row.
Senior Superintendent of Police of Patna Jitendra Rana told a news agency that security personnel had no role in deciding about who would sit on dais which is done by the organisers.
Besides Shah and Rajnath Singh, BJP general secretary Ram Lal, BJP Bihar in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Radhamohan Singh, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Dharmendra Pradhan, Giriraj Singh, Ramkripal Yadav, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain and C P Thakur were on the dais.
Nitish takes a dig at BJP for mega show on Ambedkar anniversary
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took a swipe at BJP for hosting a mega show on the birth anniversary of dalit icon B R Ambedkar on Tuesday, alleging the saffron party was "masquerading" to win the votes of the weaker section in the state Assembly polls later this year. "For the sake of power, they (BJP) are masquerading. But these turncoats will not get any benefit in the election," Kumar told reporters while celebrating Ambedkar's 125th birth anniversary at JD(U) office here.
"People who have nothing to do with the ideology of the dalit icon are observing his anniversary," he claimed. The BJP programme was held at the sprawling Gandhi Maidan in the city. "In the lust for power they promised to distribute Rs 15 lakh to the poor from the black money that would be brought back to the country from abroad. They are now praising dalit icon B R Ambedkar to win the votes of the weaker sections," Kumar, a senior JD(U) leader, alleged.
“Neither party president Amit Shah nor the BJP state leadership invited me to the function,” Sinha, BJP second term Lok Sabha member from Patna Saheb, told a news agency. “My name or photograph does not figure in any of the banners, hoardings and posters despite being a city MP,” he said over phone from his Mumbai residence.
He claimed state leaders were trying to keep him away as they would be “dwarfed due to my presence”. He, however, did not name any leader.
Asked if BJP would win the Assembly polls without him, the party’s star campaigner for long wished them luck.
On the absence of Sinha’s name in posters, senior party leader Sushil Kumar Modi said those were put up by individuals and not by the party.
Choubey went to the programme but security personnel did not allow him to go inside protected area in his car as his name did not figure in the list of persons to be seated on the dais. After a brief argument with securitymen, Choubey left the venue in a huff. He, however, later returned later on and sat with workers in the last row.
Senior Superintendent of Police of Patna Jitendra Rana told a news agency that security personnel had no role in deciding about who would sit on dais which is done by the organisers.
Besides Shah and Rajnath Singh, BJP general secretary Ram Lal, BJP Bihar in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Radhamohan Singh, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Dharmendra Pradhan, Giriraj Singh, Ramkripal Yadav, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain and C P Thakur were on the dais.
Nitish takes a dig at BJP for mega show on Ambedkar anniversary
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took a swipe at BJP for hosting a mega show on the birth anniversary of dalit icon B R Ambedkar on Tuesday, alleging the saffron party was "masquerading" to win the votes of the weaker section in the state Assembly polls later this year. "For the sake of power, they (BJP) are masquerading. But these turncoats will not get any benefit in the election," Kumar told reporters while celebrating Ambedkar's 125th birth anniversary at JD(U) office here.
"People who have nothing to do with the ideology of the dalit icon are observing his anniversary," he claimed. The BJP programme was held at the sprawling Gandhi Maidan in the city. "In the lust for power they promised to distribute Rs 15 lakh to the poor from the black money that would be brought back to the country from abroad. They are now praising dalit icon B R Ambedkar to win the votes of the weaker sections," Kumar, a senior JD(U) leader, alleged.
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