Yashwant Sinha quits BJP, says Indian democracy is in danger
Yashwant Sinha quits BJP, says Indian democracy is in danger Veteran BJP leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Saturday quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The leader said democracy is under threat and slammed the Modi government. Lashing out at the Narendra Modi government, he said he did not want to be part of any party politics. “I have remained in the NDA government. When Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the PM we were told that Parliament should function at all costs. Did the current PM even try to reach out to the opposition parties to resolve the impasse? In fact, the government was happy that Parliament was not functioning because there was a no-confidence motion against it," he said. “I don’t want to cast assertions on the conduct of the Speaker (Sumitra Mahajan) but when she said she could not count whether 50 members favoured the no-confidence motion it was the biggest joke on democracy," he said. Sinha said he would not join any political party but be part of a group to save Indian democracy. Sinha who quit electoral politics in 2014 had been the most vocal critic of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. -PTC News
