Yashwant Sinha, who in a damning slammed both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the economic "mess", is a "true statesman" who has both the parties.

In a series of tweets a day after Yashwant Sinha's column, 'I need to speak up now', was published in The Indian Express, the actor-turned-politician said, "Mr. Yashwant Sinha is a true statesman and a tried and tested man of wisdom, who has proven himself as one of the best and most successful Finance Ministers of the country." 

Sinha said Yashwant has "shown the mirror" to the government on the economic condition of India and has "hit the nail right on the head". He said it would be "childish to be dismissive of or make light of his utterances".

 "I am of the firm opinion that everything that has been written by Mr.Sinha is entirely in the parties and national interest. Only recently our Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reiterated that the nation is bigger than the party.National interest comes first," the Patna Sahib MP tweeted. 

Calling Yashwant his "elder brother", Sinha criticised the BJP leaders who are ascribing motives to the observations made in the newspaper column. "Expectedly, motives are being ascribed to Mr.Sinha's observations and we all know that the infamous and pervasive dirty tricks department is behind these dirty tricks," 

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