Weeks after Yashwant Sinha rapped Bharatiya Janata Party chief L K Advani for his controversial statement on Mohammad Ali Jinnah calling him a secular leader, the party removed Sinha from the post of the spokesperson.
"The party president has reconstituted the panel of spokesperson. While Manvendra Singh and Prakash Javdekar would continue as additional spokespersons, Sushma Swaraj and myself would be the spokesperson," Jaitley told a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.
He refused to call the Sinha's statement as indiscipline. "I have what I had to say from the dias. I have nothing more to add. Sinha would continue to be the member of Rajya Sabha and member of the national executive as before," he added.
Party sources claimed that Sinha invited action against him for criticising the functioning of National Democratic Alliance government in Jharkhand. Sinha had described the Arjun Munda government as a corrupt dispensation.
"How can someone criticise a government run by his own party and continue to be the spokesman," asked a senior party leader.
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