"He (Modi) has more selfies than all the ministers in his cabinet put together... What the people voted for was selfless leadership and what they have got is selfie leadership," Kumar said in a blog he wrote for a private TV channel as reaction to Modi365.
"Apparently some of this (selfies) have created a new global recognition for India... Its typical illustration of more style over substance, more raucous about nothing than the music of change to the ears of common man," he said.
"In contrast, any average person can easily tell you what the government did not deliver. Ask a farmer, an unemployed youth, a housewife, an artisan, an informed citizen, an academician or even the people who voted for Modi sarkar a year ago - they will have no problem articulating what the government did not deliver," he remarked.
Commenting on Modi's foreign tours, Kumar said "Probably, the prime minister has so far visited more countries in the world than states in India, and he has certainly made more visits than the External Affairs minister of the country. Yet the border situation with respect to Pakistan and China has gotten worse."
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh who was the then BJP president had set a 100-day timeline for it. "Moreover, Baba of Modi prime ministerial campaign yoga guru Ramdev publicly undersigned the commitment through his statements," Kumar said.
Continuing his criticism, he said farmers remember the PM's promise to raise minimum support price to 150 per cent of the input costs, while youths have repeatedly heard him promise that sufficient job opportunities would be created and families of defence personnel about the one rank one pension. "But none of these have been delivered.
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