The Congress on Thursday hit back at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for his “arrogant and disdainful” criticism of senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha and said he would very soon have the luxury of being a former finance minister unless he effected a course correction to put the economy back on the rails.
Minutes after Jaitley’s retort to Sinha and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram about not having the “luxury of being a former finance minister”, Congress chief spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala termed the Finance Minister’s speech was marked by “arrogance and disdain and lot of jumlas.
“All he did was insult the former finance minister and senior BJP leader by passing remarks that should be unacceptable in politics,” Surjewala said. He said Jaitley was
silent on the reason for decline in the GDP numbers for five successive quarters, negative credit growth to industry, no increase in private investment.
The truth remains, this government is about economic mismanagement and about blatant inspector raj. The entire country is disappointed by the rhetoric and the jumlas of the finance minister.
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