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Chaiwala meme again: 'Shotgun' Shatrughan fires salvos at Modi, own party

'I am speaking from my heart though it is not mann ki baat because someone else has a patent for Mann ki Baat,' Shatrughan said

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Barely days after a Youth Congress magazine published a meme calling Narendra Modi a "chaiwala" (tea vendor), BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Thursday yet again invoked the jibe against the Prime Minister.
Taking potshots at his detractors within his own party, the famous Bollywood actor wondered if others can do whatever they are doing despite not being specialists, why can he not speak on the economy.
He said he is repeatedly questioned by few people as to what qualification he has to speak on economy as he comes from a film background.
"If 'vakeel babu' (an allusion to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley) can speak on

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