Former Cabinet Minister and BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on February 9 denounced the Congress’s 10-year regime from 2004 to 2014, saying that their then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was an accused of the coal scam, during a debate in the Lok Sabha on the ‘white paper’ on the Indian economy.
His attack on Mr. Singh came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed him for his commitment to democracy in the course of the farewell address to retiring Rajya Sabha members.
In a 25-minute long speech, Mr. Prasad accused the Congress governments in Rajasthan and Haryana of handing over acres of land worth several crores to Vadra, terming it as a “new model of entrepreneurship”. He spoke at length about spectrum allocation, where he said that the “first come, first serve” model was flawed since artificial impediments were introduced to stop some from coming first.
