Click to play videoNew Delhi: Twenty-four hours after being censured by the Election Commission for delivering an allegedly communally insensitive speech, Varun Gandhi has something to cheer for. He has now become the poster-boy for the BJP.
Earlier, the party had tried to distance itself from his comments, but now the BJP is looking at Varun's case as one of Election Commission's over-reach.
BJP Spokesperson, Balbir Punj says, "What else do you expect under Naveen Chawla (of the Election Commission)?"
By pitching full support to Varun, the BJP wants to kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand, it wants to keep the hard Hindutva section within the Sangh in good humour on the eve of elections and on the other, it wants to give a message to the Election Commission that similar standards must be adopted for other parties as well.
"You have criminals and terror convicts fighting elections, why doesn't the Election Commission do something to control them?" asked BJP Spokesperson Arun Jaitley on Monday.
But the Opposition is not looking at the legality of Election Commission's views.
"Varun Gandhi must be banned from politics," was what Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi had to say.
Just last year, Varun's decision to share the dais with then RSS chief in Nagpur had endeared him to many in the Sangh Parivaar. His self-acclaimed crusade for the majority community perhaps will now make him a larger hero, despite some voices within the BJP trying to take a discordant note.
(With inputs from Divyamanu Chaudhary)
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