Vadodara : Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not taking opposition parties into confidence on issues of prime importance like Pakistan.
There has hardly been any new investment in the 14 months of the NDA rule, he said adding ‘on the contrary, India has witnessed a slump in job creation after the Make In India campaign was launched.’
“Modi has given up the practice of consulting leaders of opposition parties on affairs related to Pakistan and on other foreign issues which was followed by the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government. The foreign policy seems to be woven around Modi alone,” Patel said here on Saturday. The Rajya Sabha MP said that during the UPA rule, the National Security Adviser used to take leaders of BJP and other rival parties into confidence before making any move with the Pakistani government on any issue “whether small or big”.
“Before becoming the PM, Modi used to criticise UPA ministers saying they were eating biryani with their Pakistani counterparts. When he took up the top post, he gave a warm welcome to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who visited Delhi to attend the swearing in ceremony last year,” he said.
Patel was addressing a meeting of the extended executive of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) held on the outskirts of the city, reported PTI
Questioning Modi’s silence over scams involving Chief Ministers of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Patel said,
