State growth models not ideal for national implementation: Sinha

Former finance minister says Centre has to tackle many issues which state governments do not deal with

BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party ) prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi  may be keen on replicating his state model across the country, but his party associate and senior leader Yashwant Sinha thinks otherwise.

According to the former union finance minister no state model of development is ideal for implementation at the national level.  “The state model is not the right one for national development. There are many issues which the states do not deal with but the national government has to,” he said here on Thursday replying to a query raised at a seminar on whether the Gujarat growth model was better than Bihar's growth model. Many issues like banking, markets are not dealt by the states,” he added at the seminar organised by Bharat Chamber of Commerce.

Sinha's comments come at a time when the country's main opposition party has been flaunting its Gujarat growth model and at least a section of BJP plan to implement the model at centre.

However, Sinha later added in his reply that state model was valid for a number of areas like agriculture, rural development, education and health.