Lucknow, June 3 -- Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) National President Akhilesh Yadav has accused the BJP government of weakening the country's economy, saying that the BJP has sold the country's "gold standard".
Akhilesh Yadav said here in a statement on Wednesday that the people of the country now understand why the BJP government was refusing to buy gold. He sarcastically asked how the government would sell it if the gold had gone to the public.
The SP president said that the "golden veil" of the BJP's claims of creating a $5 trillion economy has now been removed, and the "golden curtain" of the BJP's claims has been exposed.
He claimed that after such news, people are going to banks to check their lockers ...