Arjun Singh’s suggestive Facebook post creates another controversy
For the last few days, BJP’s Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh has been making a lot of noises against the Union government’s policies on the jute industry, including on the welfare of its workers. He has said he cut his political teeth on jute mill politics and will therefore never abandon the workers. He has openly hinted at leaving his party and returning to Trinamool Congress.
These hints have left the BJP really worried, so much so that party president JP Nadda called him to a meeting in New Delhi the day before yesterday, in an apparent effort to pacify him. However, just after the meeting, he told the media, “Whether I am staying in the BJP or not, you will get to know within 15 days.”
In the latest episode today, he left a cryptic post on his Facebook wall in the form of a two-line poem. He wrote in Hindi: “Sagar ki apni kshamta hain,/ Par majhi bhi kab thakta hain?” Translated, “The vastness of the ocean implies huge power,/ But when has the boatman ever got tired?”
Apparently, ‘ocean’ here implies the BJP, and by extension, the government, against both of which he has been raising his voice continuously in recent days, and ‘boatmen’ implies Arjun Singh himself. Therefore, the meaning of the two-liner can be interpreted as: The party may be powerful, but I am no less.
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On Monday night, a few hours after meeting his party’s president, Singh suddenly left for Germany. Several BJP leaders, including some close to him, tried to get in touch but in vain.
Not only that, he told a Bengali media outlet from Germany over phone: “I have already said that whatever I will say or do will be after 15 days. Chinta korben na, boma phatabo (“Don’t worry, I’ll burst a bomb”, the bursting of the bomb being a metaphorical term for doing something shocking).
