Senior BJP leader and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha has come out all guns blazing in a scathing piece where he says he would be 바카라failing바카라 his 바카라national duty바카라 if he did not speak out about the 바카라mess바카라 that the current Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has made of the economy.
Sinha바카라s article in  has already sent tongues wagging on social media. The 84-year-old  former Finance Minister in Atal Behari Vajpayee바카라s cabinet during the first NDA government lay into the current one, saying that Jaitley losing his Lok Sabha election did not hinder his appointment. Sinha contrasted it with a time when Vajpayee had refused to induct Pramod Mahajan and Jaswant Singh into the cabinet in 1998 for similar reasons.
There was more. Sinha writes that the job of the Finance Minister 바카라calls for the undivided attention of its boss바카라 and that Jaitley had been handed four portfolios out which he still retains three.
Calling Jaitley a 바카라lucky Finance Minister바카라, luckier than any post-1992, Sinha says that global crude oil prices had placed an 바카라unprecedented bonanza바카라 of 바카라lakhs of crores of rupees바카라 which 바카라has been wasted and the legacy problems have not only been allowed to persist, they have become worse.바카라
Sinha then ran a status-check on the economy, noting a shrinking of private investment, the 바카라collapse바카라 of industrial production, saying that 바카라demonetisation has proved to be an unmitigated economic disaster.바카라 Sinha also wrote about how a badly implemented GST played 바카라havoc바카라 with businesses and that demonetisation only added fuel to a fire that had already started.
바카라The Prime Minister is worried,바카라 writes Sinha, mentioning the new Economic Advisory Council which was appointed recently and also that a meeting with the Finance Minister has been postponed.
Writing that economies are more difficult to build than they are to destroy, Sinha writes that no one has a 바카라magic wand바카라 that would revive this one overnight, and ends the piece with a parting shot:
바카라The prime minister claims that he has seen poverty from close quarters. His finance minister is working over-time to make sure that all Indians also see it from equally close quarters.바카라
Sinha, a senior leader of the BJP, has been miffed about the government's ambivalence towards his report on Kashmir. Yesterday, a group led by Sinha asked the central government to initiate a dialogue on Kashmir with the state's stakeholders and set a "time-frame" for it.
In a statement, the Concerned Citizens Group (CCG) said it has read with high hopes the statements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the BJP leadership on a positive change in policy towards Kashmir's citizens, as have many Kashmiris.
Sinha, who took over as Foreign Affairs minister from Jaswant Singh in 2002, had also criticised the Modi government's foreign policy last year. The criticism was brushed aside by the ruling party.Â
