The Congress on Thursday accused the Modi Government of pushing the country towards an economic collapse and a financial emergency, saying the note ban, GST and lockdown were “disaster strokes” not “master strokes”.
AICC chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said the GDP slump in the first quarter will have an adverse impact on the average income of every Indian, which is likely to decline by almost Rs 15,000 per person if the GDP fell by 11 per cent in the full year.
He said the Government and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should not stay in office for any longer as they have “inflicted a big blow and damage” to the country’’s economy, seen never before in the country’’s history since independence.
“There are dark clouds of economic decay all around us. Lives, livelihoods and jobs have been ravaged. Businesses and small and medium industries lie dilapidated. The economy stands destroyed as GDP has been razed. India is being pushed towards an economic collapse and a financial emergency,” Surjewala said a virtual press conference.
The Congress leader alleged that demonetisation, GST and lockdown were not “master strokes” but “disaster strokes”.
Surjewala alleged the Modi government has “plundered” the economy in the last six years and is now “describing its own ineptitude and incompetence as an act of God”.