Yashwant Sinha: Bureaucrat turned politician, now hitting out at Modi govt

The former Finance Minister's criticism of Modi govt's handling of the economy put the govt in a spot

Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's opinion piece in Indian Express yesterday, set-off many reactions from the opposition to the government. While the government argued that all was well with the economy, the opposition expectedly sided with the former Finance Minister and BJP leader, Sinha. In his column titled, 'I need to speak up now', Sinha, who was Finance Minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi "claims he has seen poverty from close quarters (and) his finance minister is working over-time to make sure that all Indians also see it from equally close quarters".

"Finance ministry,