BJP, Cong MPs are forced to say sorry
Ticked off by their respective party leaderships, BJP and Congress leaders who had crossed the party line are now in a rollback mode. But despite BJP MP Chandan Mitra and Congress MP Raj Babbar expressing “regret” for their recent remarks, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh stunned the Congress leadership when he went on to describe his own party colleague Meenakshi Natarajan on Thursday as “100 per cent tunch maal”.
As recently as Wednesday, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had cracked the whip, cautioning his party spokespersons not to transgress the party line. “We cannot go beyond the party ideology. Those who go beyond it will be noticed and action will be taken,” Mr Gandhi had said. “It seems his warnings have fallen on deaf ears,” a senior Congress leader said.
BJP and Congress insiders felt some leaders in their two outfits were emerging as “troublemakers bent on harming the interest of their parties ahead of the electoral battle”.
BJP MP Chandan Mitra, who had wanted renowned economist Amartya Sen stripped of his Bharat Ratna following some anti-Narendra Modi remarks, was the first to eat his own words on Friday.
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