Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: Silence man former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hitting out at the NDA government, Manmohan said institutions of democracy are under threat. Manmohan tried to come clean on allegations made by former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Pradip Baijal in the 2G case. “I have not used public office to enrich myself, family or friends,” former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said accusing the BJP of harping on corruption to divert people’s attention to non-issues.
“We had launched many new programmes and new schemes. We had put in place many new policies,” Manmohan Singh said. All is not well on the economy front, the former PM said, adding, ‘there is a ‘fragileness’ in economic recovery under the present government.” “Talk of policy paralysis is untrue, when our government left, India was the second fastest growing economy,” Manmohan Singh said.
Manmohan Singh’s defence comes after former TRAI chairman Pradip Baijal alleged that the former Prime Minister had warned him of “harm” if he didn’t cooperate in the 2G case.
Dr Singh’s assertion comes the day after Pradeep Baijal, the former head of the country’s telecom regulator, said that Dr Singh asked him not to obstruct policies that were being implemented to allow a massive scam in the allocation of mobile network licenses in 2009.
