There is massive gap between PM's rhetoric and reality: Shashi Tharoor

'Modi has given ‘excellent’ ideas but could not provide ‘adequate’ attention to them'

Jaipur

: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said that there is a -"massive gap-" between Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'impressive speeches' and the reality, as he might have given -"excellent-" ideas but could not provide -"adequate-" attention to them.

-"There is a massive gap between Modi's rhetoric and reality. There is no point in having a doctor who gives an excellent diagnosis but cannot write a prescription or give adequate medication to cure it,-" Tharoor said at a programme in Jaipur.

Targeting Pakistan, he said that problem lies within the neighbouring country and its solution can only come if civilian power increases and military power decreases.

-"In India, state has an army, but in Pakistan, the army has a state. In India, one joins the army to defend the country, but one joins the army in Pakistan to run the country.

-"Army there (in Pakistan) runs the country. Everything is controlled by the military. As a result, the Pakistani military has the largest share of budgets,-" the former minister said.

-"There is no army in the world that has a larger share of its own country's money,-" he said. Tharoor urged that trade and travel channels between the two counties should be generously opened.