Laxman set to quit BJP over Gadkari attack on brother Digvijay

Laxman had joined the BJP ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha elections when he was sitting Congress MP from Rajgarh,a move that hurt elder brother Digvijay,who was still smarting from the party’s loss in the 2003 Assembly elections.

Laxman won the Lok Sabha elections as a BJP candidate in 2004 but lost the 2009 elections to Congress’s Narayan Singh Amlave,an aide of Digvijay.

“Calling my brother Aurangzeb Ki Aulad is a mean comment,” he told The Indian Express,recalling how Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanandji had given deeksha to Digvijay more than a decade ago. “Do Shankaracharyas give deeksha to descendants of Aurangzeb,” he asked. “Our family has produced saints and freedom fighters.”