Arrogance can’t be tolerated, Modi pulls up BJP members

According to sources, he told the BJP parliamentary party meeting that “whomever it may be, whoever’s son he may be... such arrogance, misbehaviour cannot be tolerated” and action should be taken against them.

“Manmaani nahi chalegi,” he said in Hindi, meaning one cannot get away with doing whateverhe or she wishes.

Speaking to reporters, BJPMP and spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy quoted Modi as sayingthat such conduct was “totally unacceptable”.

Asked if the Prime Minister also suggested disciplinary action, he answered in affirmative. “He said if somebody behaves in such a way, then action should be taken against him. He made his feelings clear,” Rudy said. Sources said Modi also made a reference to BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya’s brazen defence of his attack on officials with a cricket bat with the boast “pahle nivedan, phir aavedan, phir danadan” (first request, then application, then attack), saying such conduct is unacceptable.

“If somebody commits a mistake, there should be a sense of regret as well,” he said. The MLA had defended his action and refused to apologise. He was arrested and later released on bail by a court in Madhya Pradesh.

Party sources said Modi also disapproved of the fanfarewith which BJP leaders received him after he was released fromjail and suggested that the party will take action.

The Prime Minister said that BJP leaders have toiled hard for generations to bring the party success and such arrogancebrings it a bad name.

The MLA’s father Kailash Vijayvargiya, a BJP national general secretary, was in the meeting when Modi deplored the incident.