Modi didn’t start ‘Digital India’, it was Rajiv Gandhi: Sam Pitroda
Noted technocrat Sam Pitroda, who is credited as the father of the nation's telecom revolution, on Tuesday flayed the Narendra Modi government for snatching away all the credit for the digital revolution started by Rajiv Gandhi, saying Modi "did not" initiate the digital India drive.
"Modi didn't start digital India...It's a journey which started 25 years ago and it will take 20 more years," Pitroda, who was roped in by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 as head of the Telecom Commission, said Sam Pitroda while launching his autobiography 'Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India', here this evening.
The book was launched by Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, who showered praise on Pitroda crediting his "friend, philosopher and guide" and "daring dreamer" to be a "pio...