Shatrughan Sinha said last week in Muscat that the Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party and the AAP wanted him to join them but he chose the Congress Party because it was a national party in the true sense. He added that Lalu Prasad Yadav, who was a family friend, had also advised him to do so.
Saying that it had been painful for him to leave the BJP with which he had had such a long association, the star-MP explained that he was disturbed by the treatment meted out by the party to its stalwarts such as L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Arun Shourie and Yashwant Sinha. “There used to be collective decision during Atal (Behari Vajpayee) ji’s time. There was democracy in the true sense. But now, there is the case of one-man show and two-man army,” concluded Sinha.