Ananth Kumar was staying out in Varanasi to campaign for Narendra Modi. Seeing him there, a local BJP politician asked him, “Weren’t you in Advani camp and raising your voice against his candidature as the prime minister along with Sushma Swaraj?” Sources reveal that Ananth seemed to concede as much and replied that there is no place for self-respect in politics nowadays; he was ready to rub his nose on Modi’s shoe. The same story goes for BJP’s Vijay Goyal. He came straight to Varanasi after campaigning for Arun Jaitley in Amritsar with the hope that the party will consider his claims to becoming Delhi’s chief minister.