New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has attacked the Modi government by tweeting on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s economic package announcement. He has described the relief package issued by the Modi government as a sham.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced Rs 1.5 lakh crore of additional credit for small and medium businesses, more funds for the healthcare sector, loans to tourism agencies and guides, and waiver of visa fee for foreign tourists as part of the package to support the economy.
Reacting to the government’s stimulus package for the economy, Gandhi said, “No family can spend FM’s ‘economic package’ on their living-food-medicine-child’s school fees.”
“It’s not a package, but another sham!” he said in a tweet in Hindi.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram also criticised the government over the package and said the answer to this “crisis” is to spur demand by putting money in the hands of the people, especially the poor and the lower middle classes.
