New Delhi, June 22: BJP leader Yashwant Sinha,
whose stinging letter critical of leadership prompted party
chief Rajnath Singh to issue a gag order, today sought a probe
into how virtually the entire proceedings of the national
executive found their way to the media.
"If the party leaders are bound by the discipline
order that they should not talk to the media then it should be
probed how each and every sentence uttered in the national
executive was published in the media," he told reporters here.
Sinha sought to clarify that he was not responsible
for the leak of his resignation letter to the media as he was
away in Hazaribagh.
"I came to know that my resignation has been accepted
only through the media," he said, adding, that one should
understand the media is "all-pervasive".
Sinha said he was pained to see reports that he was
doing all this as he was greedy for some post -- an apparent
reference to Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
"I want to assure my friends that I was never so petty
and will not be so petty in future as to hanker after any
post," he said, adding he had quit a post, not asked for one.
He also refuted criticism in the party national
executive that he was not a grassroots leader saying he has
won thrice from Hazaribagh Lok Sabha constituency.
To a question on senior leader L K Advani's decision
to travel across the country to rejuvenate the party, he said,
"Advani is the tallest leader of the party. I welcome it. It
will raise the morale of the workers."
Bureau Report
First Published: Monday, June 22, 2009, 18:45