New Delhi,
\n\u201cThe soul of democracy is consensus, it is simply not numbers. Even if you have numbers, you have to try and reach out to other people and try and take them along. Democracy and \u2018darr\u2019 (fear) do not go together,\u201d said former Union Minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha at an event here today.<\/p>\n
In the eye of a political storm since his recent critique of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and the government\u2019s \u201ceconomic mess\u201d, Sinha remains defiant. He was speaking on the occasion of release of senior Congress leader Manish Tewari\u2019s new book \u2014 Tidings of Troubled Times. On stage, the two shared space with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal while dismissing off speculation of any political realignment.<\/p>\n
Central to their remarks was \u201cModinomics\u201d and \u201catmosphere of fear\u201din the country. Kejriwal set the ball rolling with criticism of demonetisation and GST, throwing figures of job losses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an atmosphere of fear that I have never seen before across the country. We do not know how many ED and I-T notices have been sent out. This is a \u2018raid raj\u2019 like never before,\u201d said Kejriwal.<\/p>\n
Taking on his party, Sinha said the government tried pitting his son and minister Jayant against him to divert attention from real issues, but it failed else \u201ca certain gentleman would not have spoken for an hour and fifteen minutes yesterday\u201d, hinting at Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s speech yesterday.<\/p>\n
Without naming Modi, Sinha said he had been called \u2018Shalya\u2019 of Mahabharata, but it was only \u2018Duryodhan\u2019 and \u2018Dushashan\u2019 who were the most infamous brothers among the Kaurva clan. Sinha said he wouldn\u2019t mind if party acted against him, though he had not done anything to deserve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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