New Delhi [India], February 13 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the ongoing COVID-19 situation did not deter the Central government from taking measures for reforms that are necessary for sustaining long term growth for this country.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (Photo/ANI)
Sitharaman takes a dig at Rahul Gandhi, asks why he did not order damad to return farmers land ANI | Updated: Feb 13, 2021 13:32 IST
By Pragya Kaushika
New Delhi [India], February 13 (ANI): Union Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman on Saturday while concluding her reply on the Budget discussion in Lok Sabha took on former Congress President and Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi while the Opposition raised objection to the politicisation of the Budget reply.
Breaking Gandhi s speech into 10 points that she took from the foundation laying speech of the Congress MP, Sitharaman spoke of her expectations and disappointments evoked from Gandhi s speech.
Updated Feb 13, 2021 | 12:08 IST
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also said that the Modi government works for the common people, not the cronies. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in Lok Sabha | Photo Credit: ANI
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Where are the cronies? They are hiding probably in the shadow of that party which has been rejected by the people: Nirmala Sitharaman
Who are our cronies? Our cronies are the common janta of this country: Sitharaman
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday fired back at Congress over the hum do humare do remark and iterated that the Modi government works for the common people, not for cronies.
Rahul Gandhi becoming doomsday man of India : Sitharaman ANI | Updated: Feb 13, 2021 13:10 IST
New Delhi [India], February 13 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of creating fake narratives on various issues and said that the Wayanad MP is probably becoming the doomsday man of India .
While replying to the discussion on the Union Budget in Lok Sabha, Sitharaman mentioned ten expectations from Rahul Gandhi s speech in the Lower House on Thursday and said that the former Congress chief has been constantly saying things to demean the country. The veteran leader is building fake narratives identifying with the break India fringe group and is constantly abusing the constitutional heads of the nation. I am scared that the veteran leader is probably becoming doomsday man of India . The opposition is being led by the Doomsday man , she added.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the ongoing COVID-19 situation did not deter the Central government from taking measures for reforms that are necessary for sustaining long term growth for this country. While replying to the discussion on the Union Budget in Lok Sabha, Sitharaman said that these reforms will lay a path for India to be one of the top economies of the world in the coming decade and further. I would like to highlight - stimulus plus reforms. The pandemic did not deter us from taking up reforms that would sustain long term growth. We have taken not just one-off reforms, not just now and then, but reforms rivetted in a policy which will give a neat background, a layout spread before the Parliament for people to know that this is a reform that will lay a path for India to be one of the top economies of the world in the coming decade and further, the Finance Minister said.