Dismissing the contention that no development had taken place during the previous Congress China Wholesale Mini sign regimes as "malicious” propaganda, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said that the country’s economic policy has "no sense of direction” after the Modi government decided to scrap the Planning Commission.

Speaking at the inauguration of a national convention organised by the Youth Congress on Indira Gandhi’s 98th birth anniversary, Dr Singh asked party workers to tell people how the government’s decision to abolish the planning body has been "harmful” for the country.

"The economic policy has no sense of direction and this is largely because the Planning Commission, with all its deficiencies, was a positive dynamic instrument of steering the country’s economy,” Dr Singh said.Dr Singh said as Indira Gandhi followed Jawaharlal Nehru’s path of planned development, she always emphasised the need of the Planning Commission for a country as diverse as India.

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