Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday criticised the Centre's bullet train project, dubbing it an "exercise in vanity", and said the government's "priorities are misplaced" as it should have focused on the existing passenger rail network. Addressing an event of the business community in poll-bound Gujarat, the Congress leader claimed the project will not benefit either 6.5 crore people of the state or the nation, adding "Gujarati entrepreneurs know very well that if a deal is too good to be true, it probably is not".

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh