'Double engine govt' slogan hints at dictatorship: Yashwant Sinha
Date
1/24/2022 2:45:38 AM
(MENAFN- IANS)
Panaji, Jan 24 (IANS) The BJP's call to voters to cast ballot in favour of a 'double engine governmen't in poll-bound states, indicates a dictatorial tendency within the ruling party, Trinamool congress vice president Yashwant Sinha said here on Monday.
Speaking at a press conference in Panaji, Sinha, a former senior BJP leader and an ex-Union Finance Minister, also said that India is too diverse a country for a 'double engine' phenomenon to work.
'Sometimes what happens with a double engine phenomenon, is that one engine goes one way and the other goes in a different direction. Double engine can pull you in different directions also. We are talking about a double engine government,' Sinha told reporters.
'I want to tell you a serious thing. A very serious issue. If the central government or the BJP speaks about a double engine government, it means they want to run a dictatorship in Goa. It implies that there will be no government of another party anywhere. They are speaking about double engines vis a vis state governments,' he said.
'Tomorrow, they will speak about double and triple engines when it comes to panchayats. How can this work? Our country has so much diversity that a double engine can never work. Ab initio, it is a wrong slogan,' he also said.
--IANS
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