And the other U-turn of the day: Anshuman Mishra, who has levelled certain allegations against BJP leaders after the party backed out of supporting him for Rajya Sabha seat from Jharkhand, today retracted his comments and apologised to them. 

The NRI businessman apologised to L K Advani, M M Joshi, Nitin Gadkari, Yashwant Sinha and Arun Jaitley hours after Jaitley served a legal notice on him. In a statement, Mishra offered "complete and unequivocal public retraction" of his comments made against leaders like Joshi, Sinha, Jaitley and some others. 

He also offered his "sincerest apologies" to Advani and Gadkari. Mishra, who had filed his nomination papers for Rajya Sabha seat from Jharkhand with backing by a section of BJP before the party made a U-turn, said he accepted "the fact that he had no significant association/relationship with BJP."