Patna: Mounting a frontal attack on the party leadership and siding with JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, BJP MP from Patna Sahib Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday said, “Kanhaiya Kumar didn’t say anything anti-national.” The senior BJP leader also “wished for his immediate release” and urged his party leaders to be “cautious while making sweeping statements maligning an institution”.
Mr Sinha contradicted his own party leaders who had opposed and protested against Kumar’s JNU speech terming it as anti-national.
He claimed that he “heard the transcript of Bihari boy Kanhiya Kumar, president of JNUSU. He has said nothing anti-national or anything against the Constitution”.
The hard-hitting statements were made through a series of tweets on Wednesday which left BJP state unit leaders fuming and demanding Mr Sinha’s expulsion from the party.
