Patna, May 23: Former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid today attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent remarks - in Shanghai and Seoul - on how "earlier, you felt ashamed to be born in India".

"In one year in office Mr Prime Minister has done hardly anything concrete to feel proud about. On the other hand, previous prime ministers had not done anything for Indians to feel ashamed. Modi has insulted our country and its glory during his foreign trips," Khurshid said.

On Modi making an "advertisement" of the financial help from China, Khurshid said: "America too seeks financial help from China, but I have never heard the US President making an advertisement of it. Why is China allowed to export products to Indian market when we hardly find our products, like pharmaceuticals and software in which we have expertise, in China's market? This balance of trade loaded heavily in China's favour will destroy our country's economy and market."

Attacking Modi and his foreign policy, Khurshid said: "Inviting Pakistan's Prime Minister and shaking hands with him for two minutes will not improve the situation. I had spoken to Nawaz Sharif. He was interested in a friendly relationship. But Modi ji failed to normalise things between the two countries."

On the Congress party's stand in the context of Bihar elections due later this year, Khurshid said: "We will got with the secular formation in the state."

Reacting to Modi's appeal to people of Bihar at an event in New Delhi on Friday to rise above caste-based politics, Khurshid said: "The Prime Minister and the BJP used religion during the last Lok Sabha poll campaign to ride to power. He hardly has the moral authority to lecture people against caste or creed-based politics."

Analysing the Modi government's year in power at the Centre, Khurshid said the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was one of the best campaigns by the ruling party. "Swachch Bharat was the only campaign I liked. But the ground reality is Patna still has garbage dumped on the roads. Where is Swachch Bharat?"

Attacking the Prime Minister's Make in India campaign, Khurshid said: "The Make in India campaign's purpose has still not been defined. What is the aim of the campaign? Will it help in export or import or in seeking financial help? Many campaigns that Modi ji announced are still to take a proper shape."