New Delhi: Barely days after a Youth Congress magazine published a meme calling Narendra Modi a “chaiwala” (tea vendor), BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Thursday yet again invoked the jibe against the Prime Minister.
Taking potshots at his detractors within his own party, the famous Bollywood actor wondered if others can do whatever they are doing despite not being specialists, why can he not speak on economy.
He said he is repeatedly questioned by few people as to what qualification he has to speak on economy as he comes from a film background.
“If ‘vakeel babu’ (an allusion to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley) can speak on finance, if a TV actress can become the country’s HRD minister and if a chaiwala can become… I wouldn’t say any further… why can’t I speak on economy,” Sinha said in snide remarks at book launch here.
Modi has himself said that he used to sell tea along with his father at their small tea stall in Gujarat before he joined politics.
