Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 2
In a stern warning to party leaders indulging in misuse of power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said acts of arrogance and misbehaviour won’t be tolerated.
Though Modi didn’t name anyone, his warning came close on the heels of powerful BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya’s son Akash, an MLA, allegedly beating up Indore civic officials with a bat during a demolition drive. Senior BJP leaders, however, said it was clear who the PM was referring to.
There have also been a couple of other incidents of high-handedness involving local leaders and their relatives. Sources quoted PM Modi as saying “whoever it may be, whosoever’s son or daughter… such arrogance, misbehaviour cannot be tolerated and action should be taken against them”.
“Manmaani nahi chalegi (lawlessness cannot prevail),” PM Modi was quoted as saying at a BJP parliamentary party meeting, a weekly ritual conducted every Tuesday when Parliament is in session and attended by all BJP Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs.
Rajiv Pratap Rudy, BJP spokesperson and MP, quoted Modi as saying that “such conduct was totally unacceptable”. On whether some disciplinary action would follow, Rudy said “if somebody behaves in such a way, action should be taken against him; he made his feelings clear”.
“If somebody commits a mistake, there should be a sense of regret too… BJP leaders have toiled for generations to bring success to the party and such arrogance will only bring it bad name,” the PM was quoted as saying by some other leaders.
It, however, remains to be seen what action would be taken against Akash given the fact that the PM had issued a similar warning to firebrand Hindutva leader and the BJP MP from Bhopal, Pragya Thakur Singh, over her remarks on Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse and no action has been taken yet.
Akash was brazen about his attack on officials—“Pehle nivedan, phir aavedan, phir danadan (first request, then application, finally attack)”. Upon his release on bail, the MLA was given a rousing reception by his supporters. Sources said the BJP disciplinary committee was expected to issue a show-cause notice to him.
Making light of the incident, the senior Vijayvargiya, who was present at the meeting, the first after the BJP’s resounding victory in the Lok sabha elections, had called his son a “kachcha khiladi (inexperienced leader)”.
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