Former Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha, on January 23, took to Twitter to criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his speech at the 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. He wrote: “It was entirely improper on the part of the PM to talk politics from the dais of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.”
It was entirely improper on the part of the PM to talk politics from the dais of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.
— Yashwant Sinha (@YashwantSinha) January 23, 2019
Held in Varanasi, a three-day-long convention that stretched from January 21 to 23, instead of January 9, when it is usually celebrated, this event became yet another platform for PM Modi to campaign for the Lok Sabha Polls. Modi, at Varanasi, took a swipe at the Congress by saying, “The party that ruled the country for so many years had given the system to the country, a truth that was accepted by the then prime minister. But what is regrettable is that later in its rule of 10-15 years, there was no effort made to end this loot and leakage.”
He also said, “Today’s reality is that technology has been used to arrest the leakage of benefits 100 per cent,” adding, “Now just consider that if the country was being run through the old system, then even today from this Rs 5.8 trillion, about Rs 4.5 trillion would have disappeared or leaked. If we would not have brought a change in the system, this amount would have been looted like the former prime minister had accepted that it was looted.”
Yashwant Sinha, the former finance minister during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led previous NDA government, has been an ardent critic of the Modi government for some time now.