After having to share airtime with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for much of his tenure, the former prime minister Manmohan Singh had the stage all to himself today, on the eve of the first anniversary of #Demonetisation, in poll-bound Gujarat.
And the Oxbridge economist expanded on his Lok Sabha intervention and used the occasion to tear into Narendra Modi in his home-state.
First, Singh did not include the current PM among the “two most extraordinary sons of Gujarat”, that honour, of course, going to Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. And then, while saying the purported former chaiwallah had forgotten Gandhi’s talisman, he used these choice words and phrases.
On DeMo
“Disastrous”
“Painful”
“Inflicted”
“Ill-advised”
“Ineffective”
“Coercive”
“Thrust upon”
“Bluster”
“Organised loot”
“Legalised plunder”
“Monumental blunder”
***
On GST
“Badly designed”
“Hastily implemented”
“Complicated mess”
“Nightmare”
“Tax terrorism”
***
Singh used Gandhi’s famous “talisman” to suggest that Modi, despite his claims of a modest upbringing, had lost touch with the man on the ground,
We definitely know, when this Manmohan was PM he was silent when the common man money was looted by his Congress party. At that time he was silent. Now started speaking. Great.
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Good formula
When you are in chair, sit tight, keep mum when loot is going on alround,abdicate authority to others
But when you have to leave the chair unwillingly pick up holes in people less qualified who dare.
Eith a doctrate to boot , with plum posts all through career with advanced age hope for a third innings
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Unfortunately he thinks that his is the last word in financial prudence. He has been directed to speak like that. By whom ???!!!
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I have a simple question to ask of Churumuri. How did you blindly accept two words of the former PM, Dr. Manmohan Singh? How did organized looting and legalized plunder take place as claimed by him when 99% of banned notes have been deposited and those who owned them before did not lose one penny. 1% of the notes that were not deposited must have been either because they were afraid to deposit lest they be caught or some such reason. It cannot be then called as plunder or looting. An Oxford graduate cannot talk like a politician and give out fake data. I would have expected far more intellectual response and not such misleading information. I am even more disappointed that Churumuri without fact checking has reproduced his political speech. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Benami Lutyens cronies operating from Mysore in the guise of Churumuri…Scamsters with advanced degrees raising voice on an enthusiastic, nationalist, reformer. So what if he Modi not a Phd…
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i think you havent understood him well… that 1% includes indian currency in foreign countries which is yet to be evaluated.. then, all black money is not in currency just as Dr MMS also said during the same speech.. next organised looting doesnt have a direct literal meaning though. it refers to this a laundering scheme and a more prominently an avoidable fall of GDP… Just try calculating how much a 2% fall in GDP can account for?..
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