Former finance minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha took a series of digs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during his tour of Gujarat over the past week.

Sinha likened the prime minister to the 14th century Delhi sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq for his implementation of demonetisation at a talk in Ahmedabad. The controversial sultan had introduced non-precious metal currency 700 years ago, while imposing a ban on the existing coins of the period. At another event in the state on 14 November, the former minister also called Jaitley “a burden on Gujarat”.