Published 15:50 IST, October 17th 2019
Piyush Goyal to Dr Manmohan Singh: You took orders from 10 Janpath
Minutes after former PM Manmohan Singh targeted the BJP government over the economy, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that he should reflect on his failures
Minutes after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh targeted the BJP government over the economy, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that he should reflect on his own failures. Speaking to news agency ANI, he said that during his tenure he used to obey orders from ''10 Janpath''. Hinting at UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's intervention in the UPA government led by Manmohan Singh, Goyal said that they were unable to give an honest government. He said that Dr. Manmohan Singh had no capacity to take his own decisions. 10 Janpath is the official residence of interim Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on economy
Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Thursday, in a press briefing targeted the BJP government over reports of the economic slowdown. He claimed that BJP's double engine government has failed. He also said that poll-bound Maharashtra is the worst hit by effects of slowdown. He went on to defend ally NCP's Praful Patel over his alleged links with terrorist Dawood's aide Iqbal Mirchi emerged. The former Prime Minister said that as per the law of the country, an accused is "innocent until proven guilty."
Piyush Goyal on economy
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said that the recent economic slowdown is a cyclic structural adjustment, and it is the right time to invest in India before growth bounces back. As India is no longer the fastest-growing major economy in the world, Goyal admitted that the country's economic growth has slowed down in past two quarters (January-March and April-June in 2019) to a six-year low. "India, being an economy with huge opportunities, could do well without this kind of a slowdown... Our economy is like any other economy in the world... challenges have grown (in recent times)," Goyal said during a panel discussion at India Energy Forum CERAWeek in New Delhi. He further said, "We had a pretty good run for almost four to five years before the last two quarters. It (the slowdown) is the rightsizing of certain sectors or opportunities in different areas."
Updated 16:39 IST, October 17th 2019