BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha, a former finance minister, has skewered his own government's economic performance in a lacerating opinion published in the Indian Express newspaper this morning, titled "I need to speak up now". Mr Sinha, who has often been critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, grimly notes what he calls "the mess the Finance Minister (Arun Jaitley) has made" of the economy and remarks that many may share his views but are silent out of "fear".