Shatrughan Sinha joins Congress |
Veteran Hindi cinema Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha has officially joined the Congress, on the Foundation Day of Bharatiya Janata Party. As he bid a farewell to the BJP, with which he has shared an acrimonious relationship for years, the lawmaker took potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah. He said, "In the one-man show, two-man army, everything happens from Prime Minister`s Office... the ministers can`t work freely anyway. We have seen how democracy turned into autocracy." Taking a jibe at the BJP over the snub to veteran leader LK Advani, Sinha said, "L K Advani ji was sent to Margdarshak Mandal which hasn`t held even a single meeting so far. They did the same to Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha. Even I was told that I have been a critic and that I will not be given a cabinet post, but my image has been clean." Shatrughan Sinha, aged 72, will contest as the Congress candidate from Bihar`s Patna Sahib, his constituency of 10 years. In an association that had been souring for years, the proverbial last straw was the BJP snubbing Shatrughan Sinha and naming a different candidate, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, for his Patna Sahib constituency.
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