BJP should have denied Varun a ticket: Mishra

After senior leader Jaswant Singh, the NDA's former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra has criticised his Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign going into elections.

Mishra said the public did not like the politics of negativism adopted by the BJP.

Speaker on NDTV's Walk the Talk, Mishra said that the Hindutva message did not go down well. In fact, he said that BJP should have just cut out Varun Gandhi.

Earlier, Jaswant Singh, who criticised several decisions taken by the BJP leadership at a closed-door meeting of the party on Wednesday, openly questioned the party's defining mantra of Hindutva.

Speaking to NDTV's Barkha Dutt, Jaswant Singh said that the party had no clarity on what Hindutva meant or stood for. He said extreme elements had dented the party's image and it was in danger of becoming a party of yesterday.

And as Jaswant Singh questioned what Hindutva was, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on the other hand called up L K Advani to express his dissatisfaction over an article written by senior BJP leader Sudheendra Kulkarni in a magazine. The article blames the BJP hardliners for the party's poll debacle.

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