At the backdrop of senior BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha expressing continuous dismay over his party’s leadership, chief spokesman of Congress Randeep Surjewala meeting the yesteryear actor at his Delhi residence on Monday evening has set tongues wagging in the political circles.
While, perhaps, the first-ever meeting of Sinha and Congress leaders trickled in, Surjewala took to microblogging site stating it as a “social call”.
“It was just a social call,” Surjewala insisted. The actor-turned-politician has been critical of BJP’s policies and not campaigned for the party in Bihar Assembly elections so far. Surjewala, later said no political significance should be attached to it. “I have deep regards for Shatrughan Sinhaji. Every personal relationship can’t be viewed from political prism. Hope media friends understand,” Surjewala later said in another tweet.
Sinha, who served as Union Minister in Vajpayee Cabinet, in past amidst bitterness with his party leadership on several occasion have gone to the extent of either praising Congress president Sonia Gandhi or hobnobbing with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
In a recent tweet, Sinha said he was “upset” with the news that BJP could have done better in the first two phases of Bihar Assembly polls. In a tweet, Sinha also advised the party leaders to shun approaching issues on the ground like “5-star press meets”.
“Time to stop approaching the issues on the ground like standard, half-hearted, 5 star press meets,” he tweeted. “Grassroot BJP workers need and deserve respect and we need to reach out to voters with humility...This is the need at the ground level,” he said in another message on the micro-blogging site.