Yadavs make BJP chief eat his words
A day after calling the Samajawadi Party and RJD leaders “dogs”, BJP president Nitin Gadkari is busy apologising for his remark. However, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav wants the BJP chief to “hold his ears and
apologise”. The SP, on the other hand, threatened to move court against Mr Gadkari for his “objectionable” comments against party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mr Lalu Yadav.
Taking a dig at their own chief, some saffron functionaries said on Thursday afternoon: “Woh to bhav mein bah gaye (He got carried away).” An angry Mr Lalu Yadav, meanwhile, said, “We will first try to give Gadkari tablets to cure his mental bankruptcy, then put him on capsules, and if the tablets and capsules fail, we will put him on injections.”
The official BJP stand is that now that Mr Gadkari has apologised, “the chapter is closed”.
On Mr Gadkari criticising the SP, RJD and BSP for not supporting the NDA during the cut motion, alleging that they did so out of fear of the CBI, Mr Lalu Yadav said the BJP president was spearheading a campaign against the CBI to save several leaders of his own party who had allegedly stashed “unaccounted black money” in Swiss banks.
“The BJP president is desperate,” Mr Lalu Yadav said.
“Our president held a press conference in Chandigarh today and explained the whole issue. He very quickly retracted his statement and apologised. For us the chapter is closed. We don’t want to say anything more on the issue,” BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.
Mr Gadkari had said in Chandigarh on Wednesday that the SP and RJD chiefs, who “used to roar like lions, had knelt like dogs to lick the feet of Sonia and the Congress”.
Sensing the damage his remarks could cause, he quickly apologised, saying he had only cited a proverb and not likened the SP and RJD chiefs to dogs, as being made out. To assuage the Yadav duo, Mr Gadkari even said they are “respected leaders”, adding, “If my words have hurt them, I take them back.”
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