New Delhi: The bitter personal feud between former finance minister Yashwant Sinha and Union finance minister Arun Jaitley grew bigger on Friday.
Mr Jaitley during an event on Thursday had said the former finance minister was a “job applicant at 80 who has forgotten his record”.
The 84-year-old Mr Sinha said if he was a “job applicant” at 80, then Mr Jaitley would not be holding the finance portfolio now.
The two BJP leaders’ verbal duel had started with a debate on the state of the economy but turned personal with both raising questions about each other’s performance as finance minister.
Mr Sinha accused the finance minister of making “cheap” remarks. “So cheap is the remark that I consider it below my dignity to respond to it,” he said.
“He has completely forgotten my background. I gave up the IAS when I had 12 years of service left to join public life. I refused to become a minister of state in the V.P. Singh Cabinet in 1989 as I had some issues... I retired from electoral politics. I am not active in politics and am living a quiet life in my corner. So if I was looking for a post, then first of all I would not have given up all these things that I gave up,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Sinha’s son, Union minister Jayant Sinha dismissed allegations that he was put under pressure to write an article to challenge his father’s criticism of the NDA government’s economic policy.
