At a press conference in Patna today, Mr Sinha, who says he was not invited by his party to the Muzaffarpur rally, said there was nothing wrong in meeting with and praising a state’s chief minister. “I had gone for coffee not tea. Don’t want to mix personal friendship with politics. I have been meeting Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Jyoti Basu in Bengal too. I think of Nitish as my elder brother, have admiration for him, so I meet him for tea whenever I am in Patna,” said Mr Sinha.
Reports suggest Mr Sinha has been “unhappy” for a while now, sulking at not been given a berth in Mr Modi’s cabinet at the Centre after last year’s Lok Sabha poll victory for the BJP, despite his seniority in the party.
Mr Sinha, an MP from Patna, was a minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet from 2003 to 2004. The other parliamentarian from Patna, Ram Kripal Yadav, is a minister in the Centre.
“Have been part and parcel of the BJP for a long time. Joined the party for the first and last time. Time and again I am told I am not happy with the party etc etc, all of this is not true,” said Mr Sinha when asked repeatedly on his equations with his own party.
But in another twist, Mr Sinha also added “Can’t say what will happen tomorrow, will I be thrown out, will I leave, I can’t say, at the moment I am firmly with the BJP.”
A few days ago, Mr Sinha had said that leaders like Ram Vilas Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi should be considered being named as NDA’s chief ministerial candidate for Bihar polls despite clear indications from the BJP that it will fight the state elections with Mr Modi as their main face.
The outspoken actor was among the voices critical of the BJP’s decision to project Mr Modi as the star of its 2014 election campaign. He also needled the party by describing one of Mr Modi’s biggest critics, Nitish Kumar, as ‘potential prime minister’ before doing a neat U-turn months later, calling Mr Modi his “action hero.”
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