New Delhi: Continuing its attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday accused the Narendra Modi government, which completes one year in power, of not delivering on its promises made during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Chidambaram said, "We are marking the first year, an opposition has to give time and space to the government, we have given them one year. As I said long ago we will not criticise the government for the first year so that we can give them a term report at the end of the year. We are giving the Modi government what we believe is a term report."
As Prime Minister Modi spreaheads the BJP's campaign to advertise NDA government's achievements in the last one year, Chidambaram said that his promises are nothing more than an election pitch and his support his slowly declining adding that the Prime Minister will lose badly if an election is held today.
"Support for Mr Modi and his government has declined because they have not been able to keep their promises. In the words of their own president, that much of what they achieved, and much of their election promises was an election jhumla," he said.
Slamming the NDA government on economic policies, Chidambaram said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot deliver growth by just blaming the opposition. "NDA government should compliment UPA for inheritant GDP. Inflation began to decline in November 2013 under the UPA regime. Several key projects are stalled, the Modi government only renamed UPA schemes." Chidambaram said.
Here's the full interview:
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