Patna, May 23: Senior Bihar BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, who had sparred with his party's Patna Sahib MP Shtarughan Sinha on Twitter yesterday, today claimed he had not named anybody in his tweets.

Sinha and Modi had crossed words after the actor-turned-politician fired a series of tweets, one of them naming Modi, saying that levelling charges against political rivals without proof was not good. Modi, who has levelled several allegations against RJD chief Lalu Prasad and family over the past 50, had hit back. In one tweet, he had used the word shatru in Hindi, which means enemy and which is also a short form for the Patna Sahib MP's name.

"I never used the name of any individual in my tweets and it was he who mentioned my name in one of his tweets," Modi said today.

He claimed that by using the word shatru he was attacking the enemies of the party and not any individual.

"Chor ki dadhi mein tinka," Modi said, which is a cheeky way of saying that a person with a guilty conscience gives himself away.

Modi also declared how he had been a fan of Sinha, the actor, since 1977 and also thanked Sinha for dedicating four to five pages to him (Modi) in his recently released biography, Anything But Khamosh.

Sinha could not be reached for comment; one of his aides in Delhi said he had gone to Dubai.

A BJP functionary said the party's central leadership was aware of the Twitter war and Sinha "would be sidelined in due course of time".