Raising the decibel and sharpness of his attack further, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Friday issued a threat to “people” counseling “restraint” to him saying if he “disregarded discipline there will be a bloodbath” even as the BJP, seemingly “upset” on his uninterrupted tirade, preferred to adopt a wait and watch stand.
"People giving me unasked for advice of discipline and restraint don't realise that if I disregard discipline there would be a bloodbath," he tweeted in an obvious attack on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Though he did not name Jaitley, he was obviously referring to the Minister urging him for restraint and discipline in the wake of his attacks on Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian on Wednesday.
In another apparent swipe at Finance Minister, whose photographs of meeting with the Bank of China Chairman Tian Guoli in Beijing in a longue suit appeared in newspapers on Friday , Swamy asked the BJP to advise ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes when abroad.
"BJP should direct our Ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes while abroad. In coat and tie they look like waiters," Swamy said in another tweet.
The BJP leadership is said to be upset over Swamy's open attacks on Finance Minister and top bureaucrats and has taken a serious view of the matter.
Party sources said there was concern in the leadership over the unbridled criticism aimed at the Finance Ministry and Friday's threat of a "bloodbath" over being asked to be discipline.
Sources indicated the party would adopt a wait- and-watch attitude for some time on the issue.