Sidelined Shatrughan will skip Amit Shah's mega meet at Patna
April 14, 2015  13:38
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Angry and unhappy over being sidelined in the BJP,  Bollywood actor-turned-politician and Lok Sabha MP from Patna Sahib, Shatrughan Sinha. has decided to boycott BJP president Amit Shah's rally on Tuesday.

"Shatrughan Sinha will not attend Amit Shah's much-publicised rally in Patna to express his displeasure for being repeatedly ignored in the party after he won from Patna Sahib seat last year," a BJP leader considered close to Sinha said.

Shah's meet will be attended by six union ministers, the party's national spokesperson, the Bihar in-charge Bhupendra Yadav and former ministers and legislators.

"Shatrughan Sinha was here on Monday during his two-day visit to his constituency after a gap of a few months. But he left for Delhi and he will be in Delhi on Tuesday," said another BJP leader close to him.

However, BJP state president Mangal Pandey said that he was not aware that Sinha was unhappy and angry. "There may be some personal engagement because of which he will be missing the rally," Pandey said.

Another senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi downplayed the issue by saying that all MPs were invited for the rally. "Shatrughan Sinha was also invited for the rally. We have no information that he will not be attending it," he said.

According to party leaders who were in regular touch with Sinha, the Bollywood star was not comfortable with the present leadership of the party that has continued to ignore him.

Interestingly, union minister and the BJP MP from the Patliputra seat Ram Kirpal Yadav, is not only participating in the rally, but will also make a speech.

Amit Shah is set to launch the party's poll campaign at the rally for the Bihar assembly polls later this year.

Sinha was one of the notable absentees, along with LK Advani, at the Goa conclave of the BJP in June 2013, where Narendra Modi was chosen to head BJP's national campaign.

-- MI Khan/Rediff.com
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