A day after the Bihar debacle, the BJP’s ally Shiromani Akali Dal cautioned the saffron party against the use of “irresponsible statements” by its leaders.
“When we make irresponsible statements these days, people are mature and they don’t like these things,” SAD leader Naresh Gujral told The Hindu. He, however, said that it was too early to say what all went wrong in the Bihar poll and “the BJP would have to do some post-mortem” to understand the defeat. BJP leaders had come out with statements that were construed as polarising when the elections were on. From the remarks against Shah Rukh Khan to comments on beef, the party was seen as resorting to hard Hindutva during the polls.