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