Having warmed up, the former finance minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government delivered the knockout punch. After Sinha skewered the Modi government's economic policies in a newspaper article, finance minister Arun Jaitley had described the veteran as a "job applicant at 80". I have been the finance minister of India; they could have talked about the post of UN secretary-general, World Bank chairman.... Brics bank, this tut-punjia (rag-tag) job?" The former finance minister was referring to an article by his son Jayant Sinha, a minister in the Modi government, in another newspaper on how well the economy was doing. There is so much talk about Stand up India, Start-up India, Sit-down India.... All we need is to stand up against the attempt to create fear and face it with courage."

Source: The Telegraph October 05, 2017 21:56 UTC