Opposition Looking For "Mehengai", But It Is Not There: BJP MP Jayant Sinha

"We are lower in inflation than the US and Europe. When the US and Europe were around just two per cent, in the UPA's time inflation was around 12 per cent. We have controlled inflation and did what UPA could not," Jayant Sinha asserted.

BJP leader and former minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha on Monday asserted that there is no 'mehengai' (inflation) and the Opposition has been looking for it but is unable to find it.

Participating in the debate on price rise in Lok Sabha, Mr Sinha contended that the government has ensured that the ''thali'' (plate) of the poor is full of eatables and the people are shielded from the impact of inflation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis.

Hitting out at opposition parties for doling out freebies, he said, "There are a lot of the 'revdi' people. In Rajasthan also choorma is being made and ghee is being added to it. We have to be careful of those making choorma, sandesh, jalebi and those revdiwalas who are destroying the country."

In a swipe at the Aam Aadmi Party and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, he said, "Delhi people have got a halwaai who keeps making jalebi and he has taken that to Punjab and now since elections are coming, that 'Jalebiwala' is going to Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh."