Senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi was reluctant to leave his Varanasi seat, but he pushed him to Kanpur,” Modhvadia said.
“Jaswant Singh...such a giant leader...you did not give him a party-ticket...There are several examples like this,” he said, adding, “This kind of behaviour does not suit a politician.”
Responding to Modi's comment on the Congress replacing Dalit leader Narendra Rawat, who was the consensus candidate elected through primary, with Madhusudan Mistry for the Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, Modhvadia said, “He (Modi) had removed senior leader Keshubhai Patel from the party.”