New Delhi: Congess leader P Chitambaram lashed out at the Centre’s relief package to revive the economy, battered by the nationwide lockdown enforced to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the prime minister gave a “headline” and a “blank page”, and much was left for speculation. “ Naturally, my reaction was a blank!” he tweeted. He added that every “additional rupee that the government will actually infuse into the economy” will be counted. “What the package offers to the poor, migrants workers will also be carefully examined.”
Yesterday, PM gave us a headline and a blank page. Naturally, my reaction was a blank!
Today, we look forward to the FM filling the blank page. We will carefully count every ADDITIONAL rupee that the government will actually infuse into the economy.
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) May 13, 2020
“We will also carefully examine who gets what?
And the first thing we will look for is what the poor, hungry and devastated migrant workers can expect after they have walked hundreds of kilometres to their home states,” he tweeted.
We will also carefully examine who gets what?
And the first thing we will look for is what the poor, hungry and devastated migrant workers can expect after they have walked hundreds of kilometres to their home states.
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) May 13, 2020
Earlier, on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a special economic package of Rs 20 lakh crore which is 10 per cent of India’s GDP. The special economic package is for the labourers, farmers, honest taxpayers, MSMEs and cottage industry, PM Modi said.
There is unprecedented crisis but India will neither get tired nor give up the fight against coronavirus, and asserted that “we have to protect ourselves and move ahead as well”.
