Metaphors involving dogs appear to be really catching on of late. The latest one comes from BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya, who reportedly hit out at Shatrughan Sinha using the canine analogy.

Metaphors involving dogs appear to be really catching on of late. The latest one comes from BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya, who reportedly hit out at Shatrughan Sinha using the canine analogy.

"When a car is being driven and a dog is in the car, the dog believes he is driving the car," ANI quoted Vijayvargiya as saying. He was commenting on actor-turned-BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha's comments after the verdict in the Bihar polls. Sinha had said that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was the most successful chief minister in the country after West Bengal's Jyoti Basu.

Sinha, however, said that he had not worked against the BJP in any way, adding, "But if the BJP wants to take action against me, I cannot stop the party."

Not long ago, Vijayvargiya had triggered a controversy when he tweeted that Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's soul was in Pakistan. This was when the actor had spoken about the rise of intolerance in India.

Vijayvargiya, not exactly known for restraint in his public utterances, has made controversial statements on several occasions in the past as well. In July, reacting to reports of multiple deaths allegedly linked to the Vyapam scam, he had said that the controversy was of a chutput (small) nature for the party.

In anticipation for his denial, we clarify that Vijayvargiya has absolutely not compared Shatrughan Sinha to a dog. That, clearly, is the wrong conclusion to draw from the statement.

The last time, after his tweets on Shah Rukh Khan, he had done a complete turn-around after pressure from his party.

He had said, "My intention was not to hurt anyone. I take back my yesterday's tweet," he said on microblogging site Twitter this morning, even as his party distanced itself from his earlier remarks critical of the actor saying it was "not the view of the BJP".

In another tweet, the BJP general secretary had said that had there been intolerance in India "after Amitabh, Shah Rukh would not have been the most popular actor. Some people have drawn different meaning from my tweet."