Modi keeping silent just to win Bihar elections: Shourie

November 02, 2015 21:50

Former Union Minister Arun Shourie today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of deliberately maintaining silence on incidents like Dadri lynching while his ministerial and party colleagues kept the issue "alive" merely to win Bihar elections.

He also agreed with the suggestion that Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah were pitting one community against another in Bihar and cited a Pakistani analyst to say that while the neighbouring country was trying to get out of the pit, India was slowly going down its way.

The former BJP insider attacked Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's defence of Modi that he was the worst victim of intolerance since 2002, saying this was the worst defence he had heard and Modi "in his mind will get the fullest justification for being vengeful".

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