BJP chides its mouthpiece the ever trumpeting Subramanian Swamy for his tweets
New Delhi July 26:Rajya Sabha BJP MP and all-round critic Subramanian Swam may have inadvertently acknowledged that his party’s higher-ups have asked him to zip it and not speak at everyone behest and also tweeting on various issues and persons in the BJP and outside it .
Swamy tweeted saying that the opposition Congress party has become “aggressive” in the Rajya Sabha since he has been silent.
Ever since I became silent in Rajya Sabha, Congi has got aggressive. Any connection or accidental coincidence?
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) July 25, 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an exclusive interview to Times Now, didn’t name Swamy but made it clear that he completely disapproves of his party’s MP making disparaging comments about the outgoing RBI governor and others.
Modi admonished Swamy in the interview without naming him on national television for his “fondness for publicity”.
The BJP had to cancel two gatherings to stop Swamy from speaking about it.
Swamy helped to oust RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, calling him “mentally not fully Indian.” and that he was not fit to be RBI governor.
On 1 November 2012 Swamy alleged that both Sonia and Rahul Gandhi have committed fraud and land grabbing to a tune of ₹20 billion (US$300 million) by acquiring a public ltd company called Associated Journals Private Ltd (AJPL) through their owned private company.
Swamy even attacked the attire of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley .
Referring to Jaitley, who at the time was on a trip abroad and wearing a suit and tie , Swamy said ministers who wear western clothes “look like waiters” and must be told to wear Indian clothes.
BJP should direct our Ministers to wear traditional and modernized Indian clothes while abroad. In coat and tie they look like waiters
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) June 24, 2016
Those from his party who said Swamy should exercise discipline in his public statements, were threatened with a bloodbath by the Rajya Sabha MP.
People giving me unasked for advice of discipline and restraint don’t realise that if I disregard discipline there would be a blood bath
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) June 24, 2016
And while all of this was going on, the PM didn’t say a word. Then finally on June 27, the PM said: “Whether it is in my party or not, still I think such things are inappropriate. This fondness for publicity is never going to do any good to the nation.”
“People should conduct themselves with utmost responsibility. If anybody considers himself above the system, it is wrong,” the Prime Minister in his interview.
A few days after PM Modi’s television interview, Swamy tweeted:
PTs : New problem: when publicity relentlessly seeks a politician. 30 OVs outside the house, 200 missed calls from channels and paparazzi’s ?
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) June 29, 2016
The cacophony and the social media have gone silent since then.
