Ignored for UP campaigning, Shatrughan targets BJP

February 15, 2017 20:38

M I Khan reports from Patna: Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha has expressed surprise over the party keeping him out of list of 40 star campaigners in the politically crucial state.

"Shatrughan Sinha who has for long served as star campaigner for BJP in elections in UP and is well versed with every nook and corner of the state has been kept out of the list of campaigners for the party in UP," Sinha told media persons in Patna.

"I am not complaining... it's on party leadership to chose star campaigners," the actor-turned BJP leader said.

"I wish good luck to the party in UP," Sinha, who used to criss cross the country as star campaigner for party during time of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani, said.

Asked that former TV actor and minister Smriti Irani is among the star campaigner in UP and not he, Sinha, a Bollywood star of yesteryears, quipped "In the eyes of leadership she and others in the list must have been very important... I have nothing to say; people will decide."

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