Sitharaman 'putting forward lame excuse of inadvertent error': Congress ANI | Updated: Apr 01, 2021 10:33 IST New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): The Congress on Thursday alleged that the central government has withdrawn its order of lowering the rate of interest on small savings schemes with elections in "hindsight". On Wednesday, the government had announced steep cuts in interest rates of small saving schemes, including the PPF and NSC. That order has now been withdrawn, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Thursday morning, saying the order was issued "by oversight". Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alluded that it was the ongoing assembly elections that prompted Sitharaman to maintain the same rate of interest on savings schemes rather than lowering it.