Arun Shourie's views on Modi personal: Venkaiah Naidu

The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government on Tuesday said former union minister Arun Shourie's criticism of its economic policies represented personal views.

"Shourie-ji's view are not of the people or the party," union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said at a press conference here, adding that those were his personal views.

The central government had been doing well and people know about the challenges it had inherited, he said.

On Monday, in a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi government, BJP leader Arun Shourie said: "There was never a weaker Prime Minister's Office than now."