New friends, new leadership: Shatrughan Sinha

TIL Desk/National/Patna/ Shatrughan Sinha tweets a picture with RJD chief Lalu Yadav, writing, “Hamare ghanisht parivarik mitr Lalu Yadav ji ki anumati aur sahmati se kamaal ho gaya, dhamaal ho gaya…Jai Bihar, Jai Hind! Sahi disha, nayi disha, naya dost aur naya netritva….God bless @RahulGandhi “The Rahul Gandhi, hope of the nation.”

The actor-turned-politician, who stayed with the BJP for years despite a fractious relationship has finally decided to join the Congress. His meeting with Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and their photo  together confirmed what had been brewing for days.

Later, he tweeted that he was “painfully, on the way out of  BJP”. Shatrughan Sinha, 72, is likely to contest as the opposition alliance candidate from Bihar’s Patna Sahib, his constituency of 10 years. “Painfully….on the way out of BJP….But hopefully in the best direction under the dynamic leadership of my dear friend Lalu Yadav and the desirable, most talked about leader from the Nehru Gandhi family… the true family of nation builders….” he tweeted.