The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday brushed aside former Union Minister Arun Shourie's statement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi "managed headlines instead of economy", saying that the former had made such a remark since he was in pain for not being a part of the NDA government anymore.


"All I can say for our former colleague Mr Arun Shourie is that somewhere, his pain of not being in the government anymore is being reflected through his career nationalism," BJP spokesperson Siddharth Nath Singh told ANI.


Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also slammed Shourie saying the effect of the current company he was in, was showing through his words.


Speaking at a book launch event yesterday, Shourie mocked the NDA Government saying that it was nothing but 'Congress plus cow'.