Advised Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee against Vodafone tax: Montek

Asked for his assessment of Manmohan Singh as PM, Ahluwalia said the view he was weak and vacillating was unfair

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who was deputy chairman of the Planning Commission during the United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA’s) decade in office (2004-14), has said he had in 2012 advised then prime minister Manmohan Singh and then finance minister Pranab Mukherjee not to implement one of the most controversial decisions taken by the government of the day — to retrospectively amend the Income Tax Act, 50 years after it was passed, to overturn the Supreme Court’s Vodafone judgment. However, they did not heed his advice.
 
Asked whether this meant that Singh agreed with the proposal and didn’t think it would send