Congress on Saturday slammed Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over her remarks on former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, describing him as a “doomsday man” for India. The party said that she is an angry Minister who has ruined the economy.
Speaking to the media after Sitharaman’s speech in Lok Sabh, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, “She is not Finance Minister but is an angry minister. She is dangerous for the Indian economy. She along with Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) has ruined the economy of the country and their only motto is ‘Hum do, hamare do’.
Lashing out at the Finance Minister, Chowdhury said that the allegations made by the Congress are not baseless. Quoting a report by Oxfam, Chowdhury said, “ We want to ask the Finance Minister how does she explain that the lockdown made India’s billionaires 35 per cent richer, while 84 per cent of households income suffered a loss and 1.7 lakh people lost their jobs every hour in April, 2020 alone.”
“How does she explain that income increase for India’s top 100 billionaires since March 2020, which was enough to give each of the 13.8 crore poorest people a cheque of over Rs 94,000 each Finance Minister’s misplaced priorities include tax concession for corporates in financial year 2019-20 that amounted to over Rs 1.4 lakh crores. Instead of creating jobs, they used money for trimming up their balance sheets.”