Final Chance To Protect Nation From…”: Manmohan Singh’s 7th Phase Appeal

New Delhi: 

Ex-Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, 91, has made an emotional appeal to Punjab voters before voting Saturday in the final phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election – to make the most of a “final chance to ensure our democracy and Constitution are protected from repeated assaults by a despotic regime”.

In a three-page open letter the veteran Congress leader lamented the “unimaginable turmoil” in the Indian economy over the past decade – the two terms of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP.

Dr Singh – who was Finance Minister when Indian economy was liberalised in 1991, and was also Governor of the Reserve Bank – presented a succinct comparison of key socio-political and economic moments from the past 10 years and the two terms of his Congress-led UPA government