Former PM Manmohan Singh (File | PTI )
Former PM Manmohan Singh (File | PTI )

Madhya Pradesh poll: Manmohan Singh attacks Modi government over Rafale deal

Slamming the Modi government's monetary police monetary policy, Singh said last four years and half have been extremely challenging.

BHOPAL: The Narendra Modi-led NDA government's reluctance to constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Rafale deal proved that Daal mein kuch kala kala hai (there was something fishy in the deal).

Attacking the Narendra Modi government while addressing a press conference in Indore on Wednesday, the ex-PM said "the people of the country are suspicious of the Rafale deal, which is why they via the opposition parties want the government to form a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the deal. But the Modi government isn't ready for JPC. Is se lagta hai ki daal mein kuch kala kala hai," said Singh.

Slamming the Modi government's monetary police monetary policy, Singh said last four years and half have been extremely challenging and called demonetization a 'monumental disaster of epic proportions' which failed to achieve any of the stated objectives.

"There are ample evidences which suggest demonetization was a dubious scheme meant to convert black money into white," said the former finance minister adding it was a 'deliberate and designed' attack on savings of small traders, farmers and housewives.

Saying that the Centre and the RBI need to function in harmony, Dr Singh backed for expert advice on the contentious issue of the Centre wanting the RBI to divert a portion of its cash reserves into the economy. He also rejected the famous accusation against him of being a remote-controlled PM.

"In those times the party and government worked on the same platform and I guess it was the key to our success."

"Responding to the repeated jibes what Congress did in its 70 years rule, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted his party managed to keep the unity and diversity intact and worked for the economic uplift of all citizens.

"From 2004 to 2014, the national income grew by over 8% per annum, 140 million people came out of the BPL status and we electrified five lakh villages leaving only 18,500 villages."

The Modi government published rural electrification as big achievement through advertisement blitz by only electrifying these 18500 villages, the veteran Congressman alleged. Singh also criticised the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over highest suicide rate of farmers and jobless youths, dismal record on women and child safety and battery of scams including Vyapam which according to him destroyed the careers of 70 lakh youngsters.

When asked if he thinks the economy was in tatters, so what was the remedy, the former Prime Minister claimed the investments are required to be boosted and savings are needed to be upped again as they slipped drastically after the UPA rule.

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