India, June 14 -- Former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Friday launched a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi-led government, alleging that it was overstating India's economic performance, suppressing uncomfortable facts and failing to address deep-rooted economic challenges facing the country. Sounding a clarion call of 'Modi must go', Sinha asked the Congress to shoulder the responsibility of confronting the crisis facing the country and take the fight to the streets without fearing lathi charges or imprisonment.

Questioning the credibility of official economic data, Sinha said that several economists and international agencies had raised concerns over India's statistical methodology. He argued that the government's claims of r...