He also hit back at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and P Chidambaram, saying their argument that promoting cashless economy was futile due to poverty, illiteracy and electricity not reaching villages in the country “exposes” their own report card.
Modi said poverty is Singh’s legacy adding the former Prime Minister’s image is clean but a number of major scams had taken place during his tenure.
Reacting to his predecessor’s assertion in Parliament that a cashless economy was not feasible for the country where nearly 50 per cent of people were poor, the Prime Minister said, “I wonder whether he was giving his own report card by admitting the dismal situation.
