Modi's silence has greater power to accomplish things: Ex-PM Deve gowda

New Delhi: Hitting out at the Opposition leaders for questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence with regard to India-US trade deal, Former prime minister H D Deve gowda on Wednesday  said Modi’s silence has greater power to accomplish things for the nation than all their words put together.

Participating in the discussion on the motion of thanks on President's Droupadi Murmu's address to the joint sitting of Parliament, he said the economic foundation of the country has grown significantly stronger in the past 11 years.

Congratulating the NDA government for trade deals with the European Union and the United States, he said in Rajya Sabha that in both the deals, interest of Indian farmers and dairy sectors will be protected.

Deve gowda said when the trade deal with the European Union was announced, the Opposition leaders were quiet. But when the US trade deal was announced, they started making a lot of attacks, the Rajya Sabha member from Janata Dal (Secular) from Karnataka said.

The 92-year-old leader also made an emotional appeal to leaders mainly from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh to resolve the "major problem" of drinking water.

"Today at the fag end of my life, I don't want to talk anything because the election is there (in Tamil Nadu). I don't want to talk on this issue... with folded hands I beg of you... please see that the problem of the drinking water is solved," Deve gowda said.