NEW DELHI: Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said he had a strange opinion about some critics of the Rafale deal, who were “career nationalists”, a term aimed at former party colleagues Arun Shourie and Yashwant Sinha , who have been highly critical of the deal.

Both Shourie and Sinha had attacked the PM Narendra Modi-led government for the Rafale offsets contract earlier this month.

“Our tragedy in the NDA has been, particularly in the BJP, we have had a fair share of career nationalists. They are nationalists and with us as long as it suits their career. And, therefore, when they speak a contrarian language, I don’t attach much credibility to them,” the finance minister said in an interview.

