Cong is trying to shift focus from dismal economy: Yashwant Sinha

BJP leader Yashwant Sinha in an interview with CNN-IBN on Monday said that the Congress was trying to use secularism to divert attention from their dismal performance in the economic front. “Congress is responsible for shifting the debate from their bad performance to a sterile debate on secularism and communalism,” Sinha said. Slamming the Congress for playing the secularism card, Sinha said that more the Congress tries to bring focus on this particular debate, the more beneficial it will be for the BJP and Narendra Modi. “The more controversy Congress creates around Modi, more the BJP will gain from it. We have laddoo in both hands. More the Congress concentrates on Modi, the more popular he will become,” Sinha said. [caption id=“attachment_955799” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Yashwant Sinha. AFP[/caption] Sinha was of the opinion that the Congress has destroyed the India economy with its bad governance. “It is the responsibility of the BJP and other parties to draw attention to the total collapse of the economy. The debate needs to be brought back to deprivation, food, job scarcity issues. Congress’s performance in economic issues is dismal,” he said. He said in the interview that the Congress had inherited a country with a  GDP of more than 8 percent, but brought it down to 5 percent. “Five years of the NDA had created 6 crore job opportunities. But the UPA has created only 27 lakh jobs,” he said. Sinha was interviewed in the context of his article in the Economic Times where he has criticised the Congress government over its economic performance. “The fact is the government has worked hard during the last nine years, especially during the last four years, to destroy the economy,” Sinha said in the article. “It has no defence, so it blames the global situation, the opposition at home, the state governments ruled by other parties; everyone except itself. The economic figures did not surprise me,” he said.