In a sign of discontent in the BJP, senior leader Shanta Kumar has dropped a letter bomb to party chief Amit Shah, demanding a 'Lokpal' in the party to tackle corruption cases like Vyapam which has "made all of us bow our heads in shame".
The embarrassed BJP, however, snubbed Kumar, with Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy arguing that former Himachal Pradesh chief minister got carried away by Congress propaganda. “We generally consider Shanta Kumar a very mature leader. But it seems that he has been carried away by the propaganda of the Congress. Whatever he has said or written, we completely disassociate with Kumar's version,” Rudy said.
Rudy’s colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad said that since the letter was addressed to party president, it was for Amit Shah to respond but “ I would have felt happy had he talked about Virbhadra Singh’s involvement in scams as well”.
Published 21 July 2015, 18:51 IST