Hyderabad, March 5 -- BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy put out a tweet questioning his party's decision to nominate 'Metro Man' E Sreedharan as the chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming Kerala Assembly polls.

Swamy called the decision a "convenient spin", as word in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the 2014 general elections, before Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, was that those above 75 would not be qualified for the top job. It essentially put seniors like L K Advani, Modi's mentor, on the bench.

LK Advani was made a member of the 'Margdarshak Mandal' (a group of mentors) after the BJP came to power in 2014.

However, there was no age limit for contesting the Lok Sabha elections, so veterans like LK Ad...