Changing India: I was never afraid of talking to Press, says Manmohan Singh

New Delhi: Launching a scathing attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the form PM of India and Congress veteran Manmohan Singh, on Tuesday, said that 'he was never afraid of speaking to the press'.

Speaking at the launch of his book "Changing India", Manmohan Singh said, "I was not the Prime Minister who was afraid of talking to the press. I met the press regularly, and on every foreign trip that I undertook, I had a press conference on return. There are large number of those press conferences which have been described in the book"

A set of five volumes, "Changing India" details his life as an economist as well as his 10-year period at the helm of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime.

"People say I was a silent Prime Minister, but these volumes will speak for themselves. I don't want to boast about my achievements as a Prime Minister, but the events that took place are well described in these volumes," he said.

Attacking PM Modi, Singh that he has never faced any Press Conference since he became Prime Minister in 2014.

Talking on the economical front, Singh said, "The emergence of India as a major global power is one such idea whose time has come and no power on earth can stop such an idea."

Asked if the farm loan waivers by the new Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were not bad economics, Singh said the commitments need to be fulfilled. "Whatever it is, the commitments that have been made have to be honoured," he said speaking with media on the sidelines of the event.