New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has dared party  leadership to take action against him for his criticism of the Modi government's stewardship of the economy.

"That will be the best day of my life, because I am not doing anything that calls for action," Sinha said, adding that BJP was as much "my party as anybody else's" for which "I have given sweat and blood", he remarked. 

Sinha was answering a query about BJP initiating disciplinary action against him, after he released a book titled Tidings of the Troubled Times' by Congress leader Manish Tewari.

Sinha said he was an "elder statesman" and "beyond caring" — a barb to remind that he had been put in the BJP's 'margdarshakmandal' after PM Narendra Modi assumed power.

Getting back at the PM for his remark on Wednesday that 'Shalya' were spreading pessimism on the economy, Sinha said the renewed interest in Mahabharata characters brought to mind "Duryodhan and Dushashan".

"Kauravas were 100 brothers but if I ask you to name a third brother, you cannot. So, out of 100, only two became infamous," he said.

Shalya was the ruler of the kingdom of Madra and brother of Madri, one of the wives of King Pandu. He was expected to fight on the side of the Pandavas in Kurukshetra. However, he switched sides and became Karna's charioteer.

Sinha accused government leadership of trying to derail the debate on economy by "entangling" his critique in red herrings like "tiff between father and son" and his being denied the job of BRICS Bank chairman.

"But the debate (on economy) has started. Had it not, would somebody have given a one-and-a-quarter hour long speech last evening," he said, referring to Modi's presentation on the economy on Wednesday.

The stinging barbs from the BJP veteran — without naming the PM or BJP chief Amit Shah — were made during a brief opening speech and panel discussion featuring Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Tewari.