“For seven years, he as the Gujarat chief minister and the BJP in opposition had stalled GST in Parliament,” Sharma said. On Modi’s claims about his government’s fight against corruption, Sharma questioned the delay in the appointment of Lokpal. Sharma said Modi’s promise of curbing black money “remains a sham” and that his government has “promoted black money hoarding” and promoted “crony capitalism”. “Why has this government not given an account of how much of black money is there in the money that has come back to the RBI vaults?” he asked. The Congress leader also took on Modi for ignoring leaders of the freedom movement and his predecessors in his speech.

Source: Hindustan Times August 15, 2017 09:29 UTC