JOIN USFormer prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi hours after launching a sharp attack on the NDA government.
Singh drove down to Modi’s official 7, Race Course Road residence in the evening to meet the prime minister.
While PMO sources indicated that Singh requested the meeting on Wednesday afternoon and it was granted immediately, Singh’s office was quoted by PTI as saying that the former prime minister met Modi at the latter’s “invitation” and “they discussed the economic situation in the country and foreign policy issues.”
Sources close to Singh also told PTI that Modi had sent a message on Tuesday itself, expressing desire to meet his predecessor over tea sometime in the evening. This could not fructify and the meeting was scheduled for Wednesday evening.
Congress leader Anand Sharma also said that the meeting took place at the behest of the Prime Minister who wanted to discuss issues related to economy and foreign policy.
They discussed economic and foreign policy issues, he said about the meeting which took place at 6.30 pm.
“Very happy to meet Dr Manmohan Singhji and welcome him back to 7RCR. We had a great meeting,” Modi said on Twitter.
On Wednesday morning, Singh had accused Modi of repackaging UPA government’s schemes as his own. He also accused the Modi government of “manufacturing” and “modifying” statistical data to show that the last one year has not been that bad for the economy.
Modi, in an interview to PTI on Wednesday, had hit out at Singh suggesting that Congress President Sonia Gandhi had been the “unconstitutional” authority exercising “real” power over the PMO during the UPA rule.