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I don’t want to react on Yashwant’s remarks: Naqvi

Yashwant Sinha

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday declined to comment on senior party member Yashwant Sinha’s recent criticism of the party leadership during an interview to NDTV.

“I don’t want to react on this issue,” BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told IANS.

Mr. Sinha had expressed dissatisfaction over the party leadership not analysing seriously the reasons for its defeat in the recent Lok Sabha elections.

Disregarding BJP chief Rajnath Singh’s warning to members in June to refrain from making public comments about the party, Mr. Sinha said in the interview that the BJP’s defeat was explained within the party in a “casual, light-hearted manner.”

Mr. Sinha also differed with the explanation given by Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley that the “emergence of a bipolar polity in the country” as the reason behind the debacle.

The former Finance Minister had also expressed regret that despite his having presented many budgets, the party did not ask him to speak on the budget. “I expected the party to ask me to speak on the budget... I was informed that somebody else was going to speak on this ... and that clearly disappointed me.” — IANS

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