No PM has stooped so low: Manmohan

Bengaluru, May 7 

Accusing PM Narendra Modi of trying to “polarise” society in the Karnataka elections, his predecessor Manmohan Singh on Monday launched a scathing attack on the BJP government for its “disastrous policies” and “economic mismanagement”.

He said it was “shocking” that the PM was “stooping so low” and using language unbecoming of the office he held. “No PM has used the office to say things about his opponents that Mr Modi has been doing day in and out...” 

Attacking the government over a series of banking frauds, he pointed out that the money swindled almost quadrupled from Rs 28,416 crore in September 2013 to Rs 1.11 lakh crore in September 2017. “Perpetrators of these frauds, meanwhile, escape with impunity. The economic mismanagement of the Modi government, and I say this with great care and responsibility, is slowly eroding the trust of the general public in the banking sector...

“Our farmers are facing an acute crisis, our aspirational youth are not finding opportunities and the economy is growing below potential. The unfortunate truth is each of these crises was entirely avoidable.” — PTI