Hyderabad, Oct. 13 -- Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has slammed the National Human Rights Commission India (NHRC) chairman, Justice Arun Mishra, for heaping praise on home minister Amit Shah.

Sinha, who is now the vice president of Trinamool Congress, called Mishra's conduct "pure chaplusi".

"Justice Arun Mishra praises PM in his presence as a judge of SC. He is apptd chairman of the NHRC. Now he praises the HM in his presence. This is pure chaplusi. How low will you fall Justice Mishra?" he wrote in a tweet.

Speaking at the 28th Foundation Day of NHRC, the country's human rights body, Arun Mishra said a new era has now been propelled in Jammu and Kashmir because of Union home minister Amit Shah.

"It is for you, Mr Shah, that a new...