BJP taunts Manmohan Singh, says ‘silence of self-defence when everything has been lost’

New Delhi, May 27 : Targeting former prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on the issue of corruption during the decade-long UPA rule, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said that it was ironical that latter was following the principle of “silence of self-defence when everything has been lost”.It said Dr. Singh’s criticism of the NDA on taking up what he termed as non-issues, was certificate enough of the loot committed by the UPA regime between 2004 and 2014.Pointing out that corruption is the country’s core issue, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged that Rs. 13 to 15 lakh crores was drained from this country in the last ten years under the UPA regime. ”The country’s attention was focused on a singular issue for the last ten years and the singular issue on which the country focused its attention was nothing other than corruption because you had pick-pocketed money out of every pocket in this country, you had destroyed this country through the way if corruption, and today, you say that corruption is a non-issue,” said Patra.