Please Dr Manmohan Singh, don’t compare your days with Modi Ji’s: BJP

Read | Manmohan Singh on Kathua, Unnao rape cases: ‘PM Narendra Modi should follow own advice to me, speak more often’

Earlier, senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh had hit out at PM Modi for his delayed response over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager by a BJP MLA in Unnao, saying Modi “should follow his own advice to me” and “speak more often”.

In an exclusive interview to The Indian Express, Singh said he was glad that Modi finally broke his silence last Friday at an event in Delhi commemorating the birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, when he said the “daughters of India” will get justice and the guilty won’t be spared.

Singh said Modi’s failure to speak up earlier had allowed people to think that they could get away without stern action being taken against them. “I do feel that those in authority must speak up in time (so as) to give a lead to their followers,” he said.