"Congress Sold Resources And Made Kickbacks": Finance Minister Hits Back
NDTV
"Does he (Rahul Gandhi) understand what monetisation is? Nirmala Sitharaman said
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who announced the National Monetisation Pipeline on Monday, hit back at Congress's Rahul Gandhi today for his criticism over it. "Does he (Rahul Gandhi) understand what monetisation is? It was Congress that sold the country's resources and made kickbacks in it," Ms Sitharaman was quoted as saying by news agency Press Trust of India. Mr Gandhi had spearheaded the Congress attack on the government over the monetisation plan, saying it helped Prime Minister Narendra Modi "sell the country's crown jewels, built over 70 years with public money, to his industrialist friends". The Congress also pointed to the BJP charge that since Independence, the Congress has brought no development. The privatisation list is of assets built by successive Congress governments, which the BJP is now selling it to cover up their mismanagement of the economy, the party said.
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