First, it was Shatrughan Sinha. Then R K Singh. And now Chedi Paswan. All three influential BJP Lok Sabha members from Bihar have virtually raised a banner of revolt against the party leadership for giving them a raw deal during the ongoing assembly elections.
Ironically, none of the three have anything to do with the BJP’s parent organisation, the RSS, but the three outspoken MPs, through frank opinion, have given some ray of hope to all those party leaders who are feeling suffocated within the saffron camp but have not dared to raise their voice so far.
While reams of newsprint went into highlighting why Shatrughan Sinha was annoyed with the party leadership, when a former Union Home Secretary-turned-MP R K Singh makes an allegation of “tickets being sold” and “shady characters being given BJP ticket” then the grave charges cannot simply be brushed under the carpet.