Sir — This refers to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s remark that Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Mr Manmohan Singh to take lessons in economics from the latter. Though Mr Singh’s visit appears to have been a courtesy call a former Prime Minister made to an incumbent Prime Minister, different meanings are being read into the development. If at all Prime Minister Narendra Modi did try to understand economics from Mr Singh, what’s wrong in thatIJ In fact, it shows Mr Modi’s humility and desire to rise above politics for the larger good of the nation.
And, by the way, why didn’t Mr Rahul Gandhi, who has ridiculed Mr Modi for taking ‘lessons’ in economics from the former Prime Minister, himself learn something from Mr SinghIJ He had trashed an Ordinance cleared by a Cabinet that Mr Singh had headed as Prime Minister, calling it in full public view as a piece of “nonsense” fit to be consigned to the waste-paper basket. Mr Gandhi must think before he speaks.