TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ In his first direct attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah, party MP Shatrughan Sinha has described the dispensations running the government and the organisation as a “one-man army” and a “two-man show”.
The outspoken Lok Sabha member from Patna Sahib, in a no-holds-barred assault on the Modi government, said its ministers were a “bunch of sycophants” 90 per cent of whom were hardly known to people. Sinha also targeted Modi as he bared his ‘dil ki baat’ at an event, saying: “Somebody else has patented ‘mann ki baat’. The atmosphere nowadays is such that either you support a person or be ready to be called anti-national”.
Sinha, though often critical of the government’s policies, was unusually forthright in attacking it from the dais he shared with several top Opposition leaders including Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury and rebel Janata Dal-United MP Sharad Yadav. The occasion was the release of a book of another rebel JD-U MP Ali Anwar.
“The dictum guiding the current times is ‘na jioonga na jeene doonga’ (neither will I live, nor allow others to live),” he said in an apparent parody of Modi’s anti-graft slogan ‘na khaoonga, na khane doonga’ (won’t take bribe, will not let others).
