Hailing former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said he was the only leader after Jawaharlal Nehru who was appreciated by people across the country. He added that the slogan ‘Sabka saath, sabka vikas’ truly suits him.
Sanjay Raut’s statement supposedly targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s motto of ‘Sabka saath, sabka vikas’ (collective efforts, inclusive growth), and had assumed office in 2014.
Responding to a question related to Mr Vajpayee on the late BJP leader’s birth anniversary, Mr Raut told PTI that, “Atal Bihari Vajpayee played a pivotal role in cementing the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance. ‘Sabka saath, sabka vikas’ line truly suits him.”
“Vajpayee was the only second leader in India, who was appreciated across the country after Jawaharlal Nehru. May it be Nagaland or Puducherry, there were people who respected Vajpayee,” the Shiv Sena MP said.
Mr Raut further told the news agency that Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani were the two major pillars of the BJP, who helped the party spread across the country.
