It's the economy, stupid! Yashwant Sinha's comments indicate churn within BJP

In recent weeks, most Opposition parties, but particularly the Congress, have chosen to focus their attack on the Modi government on its handling of the economy, lack of jobs and farm distress

Former finance minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran Yashwant Sinha’s latest criticism of the Narendra Modi government’s moves has given the Congress party, which has struggled to build a campaign around the present establishment’s failures on the economic front, a major shot in the arm.

 
While Sinha answered the call of his “national duty” to speak up, BJP’s Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy and Sangh Parivar fellow traveller S Gurumurthy have also spoken earlier about the poor state of the economy.
 
Congress leader and another former finance minister P Chidambaram, who held a press briefing later in the