Manmohan Singh Blasts PM Modi: “Still Blaming First Prime Minister, Nehru”

New Delhi:

Manmohan Singh, in a uncommon and stinging assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his authorities right now, stated the BJP has been in energy for greater than seven years however nonetheless blames first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for each drawback. “The submit of Prime Minister has a sure dignity,” remarked the previous Prime Minister and senior Congress chief in a video message days earlier than the Punjab election.

Manmohan Singh, 89, stated the Congress had by no means divided the nation for political positive aspects or hidden the reality. The BJP, then again, believed in “pretend nationalist” based mostly on the British coverage of divide and rule, he stated.

“On one hand, persons are going through issues of inflation and unemployment, on the opposite, the current authorities, in energy for the final seven and a half years, quite than admitting its errors and rectifying them, remains to be blaming first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for folks’s issues,” Dr Singh stated within the message performed by the Congress. 

“I really feel that the PM’s place has a particular dignity and shouldn’t blame historical past to downplay faults. After I was Prime Minister for 10 years, I spoke by my work. I by no means let the nation lose status earlier than the world. I by no means undermined India’s satisfaction,” he stated. 

“I’ve at the least this satisfaction that after the false accusations in opposition to me of being weak, silent and corrupt, the BJP and its B and C-teams are getting uncovered earlier than the nation.” 

The 2-time Prime Minister additionally accused the federal government of a failed international coverage and of making an attempt to suppress Chinese language incursions on the Line of Precise Management.

“They (BJP-led authorities) don’t have any understanding of financial coverage. The difficulty is just not restricted to the nation. This authorities has additionally failed on international coverage. China is sitting at our border and efforts are being made to suppress it (incursions),” Dr Singh stated.

“I hope the PM has understood that international coverage can’t be performed by forcibly hugging leaders, enjoying on swings or going for biryani uninvited,” he added. 

“We by no means divided the nation for vested political achieve. We by no means tried to cover the reality. We by no means undermined the esteem of the nation or PM’s place. Folks right now are being divided. This authorities’s pretend nationalism is hole and harmful. Their nationalism is predicated on the British coverage of divide and rule. Constitutional establishments are being weakened.”

There’s “selfishness and greed within the authorities’s financial coverage”, stated the previous Prime Minister. “For his or her egocentric curiosity they’re dividing folks and making them struggle,” he stated. 

Dr Singh additionally referred to the safety breach that left PM Modi’s convoy caught on a flyover in Punjab for 20 minutes due to protesting farmers. 

“A number of days in the past, within the title of the prime minister’s safety, an try was made to defame Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and the folks of the state. Throughout the farmers’ agitation, too, an try was made to defame Punjab and Punjabiyat. The world salutes the bravery, patriotism and sacrifice of Punjabis, however the NDA authorities didn’t discuss any of this. As a real Indian from Punjab, all this stuff deeply harm me,” he stated.