Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a scathing attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for constantly undermining constitutional authorities and demeaning India.
In her reply to the discussion on the Budget, the Finance Minister targeted Rahul Gandhi who had called the BJP government as a government catering to ‘two crony capitalists’, and said that the cronies are hiding behind the party that was rejected by the people, referring to the Congress party.
“For the BJP government, the cronies are the common people of the country”, the Finance Minister said.
She also attacked the Gandhi family without taking names and said “Hum Do, Hamare Do is this: We are two people taking care of the party and there are two other people… the daughter and the ‘damad’. We, the BJP government, don’t do that.”
The Finance Minister went on to say that under the Congress rule, lands were snatched from small farmers in Rajasthan and Haryana at cheap prices, in an apparent dig at Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law Robert Vadra’s notorious land grabbing incidents.
“I thought after the Prime Minister spoke about the small farmers, he (Gandhi) would announce that he had told his brother-in-law to return the land he had snatched from small farmers”, Nirmala Sitharaman said.
The Finance Minister also cracked the whip on Rahul Gandhi for disrespecting constitutional offices, creating fake narratives, and joining the break-India-image forces.
“The Opposition which has to raise questions on the government is doing this. I am scared that he has become the Doomsday Man for India… The tendencies of the Congress, in creating fake narratives and creating an institution to be misused by their cronies, makes it clear that their belief in the democratically elected Parliament is finished,” she said.
Taking a dig at the Wayanad MP, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman posed a series of questions to Rahul Gandhi who, while speaking in the Lok Sabha, said he was ‘laying a foundation’ to his speech on the Budget and instead spoke about ‘farmers’ protest.
“I want to ask him 10 questions, which I thought he would reply while ‘laying foundation’ for his Budget speech”, Finance Minister said.
She posed a question to the Congress party on why it had taken a U-turn after taking a position on the APMCs in its 2019 election manifesto adding that Rahul Gandhi had failed to explain why Congress governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh did not waive farm loans, as promised in their manifestos.
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