NEW DELHI: The 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 by constantly insulting constitutional functionaries and creating fake narratives on various issues. The party said that she is an angry Minister who has ruined the economy.
Speaking to the media at Vijay Chowk here,
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Leader of the Congress Party in the Lok Sabha 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.
He said as per the report of Oxfam, we want to ask the Finance Minister "How does she explain that the lockdown made India's billionaires 35 percent richer, while 84 percent of households income suffered a loss and 1.7 lakh people lost their jobs every hour in April 2020 alone."
Firing salvos at Sitharaman, he said, "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 crores poorest people a cheque of over Rs 94,000 each? Finance Minister's misplaced priorities include tax concession for corporates in the financial year 2019-20 that amounted to over Rs 1.4 lakh crores. Instead of creating jobs, they used the money for trimming up their balance sheets."
The Congress leader stated that in 2018-19 banks wrote off about Rs 2.38 lakh crore in non-performing assets, which are mostly loans defaulted by corporates, but the Finance Minister will scorn at every given opportunity if the issue of waiving off the loans of farmers arises. (IANS)