Shotgun goes Rabdi hunting

PUNE, February 26: Bharatiya Janata Party's star campaigner Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday lashed out against the Congress and Sonia Gandhi w...

PUNE, February 26: Bharatiya Janata Party’s star campaigner Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday lashed out against the Congress and Sonia Gandhi when he declared that being the oldest party in the India, Congress desperately needed rest and Sonia Gandhi was nothing but Videsi Rabdi.

Drawing a parallel between Sonia Gandhi and Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, Sinha, who was addressing a meeting to campaign for Pune Vikas Aghadi candidate Suresh Kalmadi at Yerwada, said the only difference between Sonia Gandhi and Rabri Devi was, desi and videsi. Though he claimed that Soniaji is like a Bahu and Bhabhiji, and stated he would not talk much about her, he said her speeches were being ghost written.

“She does not know what she is talking,” Sinha remarked.

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A speech full of `filmi style dialoguebaji, Sinha made it appealing to the crowd by resorting to Sher-o-Shayari.

Highlighting the issue of corruption, Sinha recited a Najm when he said, Bharosa kar diya jispe usine hamko loota jain, kis kis ka naam le, sab nehamko loota hain (we have been betrayed and robbed by everyone whomsoever we have trusted),” said Sinha referring to corruption in former prime minister P V Narsimha Rao’s government.

He became the prime minister as Narasimharao and vacated the post as `Narsuitcase Rao’, Sinha said, referring to allegations levelled against Rao by Harshad Mehta.

“Chacha Kesri is dreaming of becoming the prime minister of this country, but mind you his dream is like a nightmare for all of us,” he said and added that Congress being a 113-year-old party desperately needed rest.

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Referring to the issue of stability, Sinha said, “The Congress cannot form a government on its own and thus there will again be a Khichdi government if you vote them to power. “Such governments and hung parliament eventually proves to be bad for country,” he remarked.

Referring to the opposition of BJP by other parties, Sinha said it was their one-point programme to oppose the BJP. “But the BJP is like Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion(for every action there is equal and opposite reaction), the more they try to suppress it, the more it springs back into action,” he said.

Praising Kalmadi as a candidate with `minister material’ he said, after getting elected Kalmadi will act as a bridge between the BJP government and the electorate of Pune.