Still blaming first Prime Minister Nehru: Manmohan attacks Modi

Targeting the Centre on a host of issues, including the farmers’ agitation, foreign policy, price rise and unemployment, the former PM said Cong had never divided the country for political gains or hidden truth

CHANDIGARH: The BJP had been in power for more than seven years and was still blaming first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the problems of the people, former PM and Congress leader Manmohan Singh said on Thursday in a scathing attack against the Modi-led government.

Targeting the Central government on a host of issues, including the farmers’ agitation, foreign policy, price rise and unemployment, Singh said ahead of the Punjab elections on February 20 that the BJP’s nationalism was based on the British policy of divide and rule.

The Congress played the message delivered in Punjabi at a press conference here.

According to Singh, the government had proved to be a complete failure on the issue of foreign policy. The Chinese army, he alleged, “was occupying our pious land for the last one year but efforts are being made to bury this issue”.