Punjab poll is Chunauti to BJP

Shotgun Sinha claimed “a very big” leader called him up one day and asked him why he was “speaking the language of opposition” on demonetisation and GST.

The actor-turned-politician said he told that leader that what he said was in the national interest.
There is anger among people over Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetisation, and the writing on the wall is clear that the Gujarat Assembly election is not just a ‘chunav’ (poll) for the BJP but also a ‘chunauti’ (challenge), outspoken party MP Shatrughan Sinha said .

Sharing dais with Congress leader Manish Tewari at a panel discussion on the latter’s book ‘Tidings of Troubled Times’, Sinha also defended his comments on economic issues, saying “if a lawyer can talk about finances, if a TV actress can be the HRD minister and if a ‘chaiwala’ can be… then why I cannot talk about economy?”

Sinha maintained that he was not challenging his party but “showing mirror to it” in the BJP’s and the nation’s interest.