Congress makes song and dance of Sushma Swaraj

Sushma Swaraj’s dancing abilities were questioned on Tuesday. The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha and senior BJP leader had danced to a song during the party’s satyagraha protest at the Raj Ghat on Monday, the place where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated.

That evening and on Tuesday the debate was on show. On TV, BJP BJP panelists sounded suitably embarrassed while Congress members turned up their noses and with a certain disdain said that this (the BJP) was a party of dancers, a pejorative term when uttered in Hindi.

The woman/dancer in question, Swaraj, called a press briefing at 7.30pm at her residence.

Flanked by party colleagues, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Shah Nawaz Husain, she said party workers sang a patriotic song from a Dilip Kumar-Vyjanathimala starrer made by BR Chopra in 1957- a Mohd, Rafi number “Yeh desh hai veer jawaanon ka, mastaanon ka…”.

Sushma said when party workers sang and danced she too joined them in a gesture of camaraderie.

She said that she was surprised that the Congress should object to anyone dancing to a patriotic song, saying, “I will dance to a patriotic song till the last breath of my life.”

She also said that this would not have offended the spirit of Bapu.