India News: Finally, Yashwant Sinha recovers from 'NaMonia'
India News: Former Finance Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha did a U-turn on Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, saying he would be the country's next Prime Minister.
To be precise, on June 8, Sinha said that he had chosen to stay away from the party's national executive meeting in Goa not because of 'NaMonia', an oblique reference to aversion to the Gujarat CM. He said: "I don't have 'NaMonia'. I am in perfect health. But there could be other reasons for not going to Goa because of which I have not gone there."
'NaMonia' emerged as a euphemism to refer to a group of BJP leaders, including LK Advani and Jaswant Singh, who reported sick and skipped the party's Goa national executive meeting. It has become fashionable in BJP circles to describe Narendra Modi as "NaMo".
The much-trumpeted BJP's prime ministerial candidate story has aroused enormous expectations. Time was when the former foreign minister had said senior party leaders Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley were in the front line for the post. 'Did Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or the Congress declare who will be their prime ministerial candidate? Will it be from among Rahul Gandhi, A K Antony or Digvijay Singh or some other?' he once asked.
"If Advani ji is available to lead the party and the government, then that should be the end of all discussions," the former Union minister said in April 2013.
Only a few months back, Sinha had expressed his support for Modi's candidature. Sinha's comments found almost instant validation with even the Shiromani Akali Dal, which had been backing Modi, also expressing its support for Advani.
After Modi's infamous "burqa of secularism' comments, Sinha wrote in a newspaper article that the "more" Modi spoke, the more his baiters will create controversies and try and deflect people's attention from the UPA's "misgovernance and corruption".
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To be precise, on June 8, Sinha said that he had chosen to stay away from the party's national executive meeting in Goa not because of 'NaMonia', an oblique reference to aversion to the Gujarat CM. He said: "I don't have 'NaMonia'. I am in perfect health. But there could be other reasons for not going to Goa because of which I have not gone there."
'NaMonia' emerged as a euphemism to refer to a group of BJP leaders, including LK Advani and Jaswant Singh, who reported sick and skipped the party's Goa national executive meeting. It has become fashionable in BJP circles to describe Narendra Modi as "NaMo".
The much-trumpeted BJP's prime ministerial candidate story has aroused enormous expectations. Time was when the former foreign minister had said senior party leaders Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley were in the front line for the post. 'Did Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or the Congress declare who will be their prime ministerial candidate? Will it be from among Rahul Gandhi, A K Antony or Digvijay Singh or some other?' he once asked.
"If Advani ji is available to lead the party and the government, then that should be the end of all discussions," the former Union minister said in April 2013.
Only a few months back, Sinha had expressed his support for Modi's candidature. Sinha's comments found almost instant validation with even the Shiromani Akali Dal, which had been backing Modi, also expressing its support for Advani.
After Modi's infamous "burqa of secularism' comments, Sinha wrote in a newspaper article that the "more" Modi spoke, the more his baiters will create controversies and try and deflect people's attention from the UPA's "misgovernance and corruption".
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