Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran Yashwant Sinha again targetted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over demonetisation and roll-out of Goods and Service Tax (GST).
Speaking at a function in Gujarat, Yashwant Sinha compared PM Narendra Modi to Muhammad bin Tughlaq and said that the country can rightly ask Arun Jaitley to quit for imposing ‘deeply flawed’ GST.
Taking a dig at PM Narendra Modi over demonetisation, Yashwant Sinha said, “There were many ‘shahenshah’ (king) who brought their own currency. Some even kept previous currency in circulation while introducing the new one.
But, there was a shahenshah 700 years back, Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who introduced his own (currency) while discontinuing the old currency.”
“Thus, we can say that demonetisation was done 700 years back. Though Tughlaq is infamous for shifting his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad, he has also done demonetisation,” he added.