Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday hit out at the Delhi Chief Minister for “giving a perverse twist” to the debate on freebies, saying Arvind Kejriwal’s comments are an attempt to create fears in the minds of the poor. A day after Kejriwal joined the debate on freebies calling for a referendum on spending taxpayers’ money on healthcare and education, Sitharaman said that spending on these two has never been called or classified as freebies since Independence and to drag them now into the debate is to give a perverse twist. “No Indian Government has ever denied them since Independence. So, by classifying education and health as freebies, Kejriwal is trying to bring in a sense of worry and fear in minds of the poor,” she said.