Stop blaming previous government: Yashwant Sinha

September 28, 2017 13:23

The morning after his extreme indictment of the government's role in the economic slowdown, veteran BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said "I stand by my analysis."

Sinha, a former finance minister, said "short-sighted" decisions are being rushed by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that there is no denying that the economy has hit a rough spot.

"We used to blame the UPA (previous government) for policy paralysis," he said, "after 40 months in power, we can't (still) blame the earlier government," he said.

Sinha, 79, stung his party yesterday with an opinion piece titled "I Need To Speak Up Now" in which he demolished Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and his handling of the economy, which fell to a three-year-low of 5.7 per cent in the last quarter.

The government rejected his assessment. "Under the decisive leadership of PM Modi, India has become the world's fastest-growing economy for three years in a row," said union minister Piyush Goyal.

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