Shimla, Oct 23 (Inditop.com) Jaswant Singh should return to the party, Manmohan Singh is the best prime minister, the RSS needed to take full charge of the BJP… actor and MP Shatrughan Sinha was in full flow Friday as he recommended “surgery” to check the “raging dissent” in his party.
“All is not well within the party. The party now needs a surgery. As the medication has failed to check the raging dissent, surgery is the only option left. We need to take tough actions and introspect,” Sinha told reporters here, a day after the party’s drubbing in the assembly elections in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Haryana.
He admitted that the party had failed again in the elections — following the defeat in the May general elections.
“We have certainly failed in the recent elections… still we have not learnt lessons,” he said.
He also endorsed the views of senior party colleague Arun Shourie that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) should take charge of the BJP that faced a leadership crisis.
“Since the BJP is an offshoot of the RSS, it has to adopt (take charge) the BJP fully. If parents do not take care of the children, who else would?”
Asked a question on the leadership of L.K. Advani, the MP from Patna Sahib in Bihar said: “For me, Advani is the tallest leader. I can’t comment on him.”
According to Sinha, Jaswant Singh, who was expelled from the party after his book on Pakistani founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, should return to the BJP fold.
“The return of expelled leader Jaswant Singh to the BJP would be in the larger interest of the party… Jaswant Singh has been a founding member of the party. His expulsion has given a wrong signal. My personal opinion is that if he returns to the party, it will be in the larger interest of the party.”
He was also fulsome in his praise of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
“He (Rahul Gandhi) has a bright future… I think the path he has chosen will bear fruit one day,” he said.
On Manmohan Singh, he said: “He is one of the best prime ministers of the country. He is known for his integrity and honesty.”
