PM Narendra Modi meets his predecessor Manmohan Singh at 7 RCR

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met his predecessor Manmohan Singh at his official residence 7 Race Course Road in New Delhi.

After meeting, Modi tweeted, "Very happy to meet Dr. Manmohan Singh ji & welcome him back to 7RCR. We had a great meeting."

Earlier in the day, Singh launched a scathing attack on the Modi government, saying the past was continually being rewritten to promote a "highly biased and communal view" and dissent was being suppressed.

In an uncharacteristic hard-hitting speech at a convention in New Delhi, Singh said institutions of democracy were "under threat" and the edifice of welfare state was being "dismantled". He also questioned BJP government's claims on economic development, saying rural India was under acute distress and the economic recovery was fragile.

"Institutions of Democracy are under threat. The entire edifice of the welfare state is now being dismantled in the guise of promoting faster economic growth, whereas they are two sides of the same coin.

"The past is continually being rewritten to promote a highly biased and communal view... Dissent is being suppressed," Singh said in his address at the convention organised by NSUI, the student wing of the Congress.

The Congress party, he said, has tried hard to ensure that India flourishes as an open pluralistic, liberal and secular democracy which was proud of its composite heritage.