Congress calls Jaitley ‘court jester’ after his ‘clown prince’ jibe at Rahul
NEW DELHI: The Congress hit back at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday accusing him of “lying” on the issue of NPAS and dubbed him as a “court jester” writing “wasteful” blogs, after he called Rahul Gandhi a “clown prince” who was spreading “lies” about Modi government waiving Rs 2.5 lakh crore in loans to 15 industrialists.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala accused Jaitley of making desperate attempts at spreading “fake agenda to stay relevant as a court jester” and asked why he was “abusing” the opposition instead of answering the questions on non-performing assets of banks and Rafale deal.
Attacking the government on the issue of NPAS, the Congress leader alleged collusion between “bank looters and the Modi government”.
“Political amnesia and chest thumping cannot obliterate your dismal record of dismantling India’s economic progress or as also the surging NPAS resulting out of bankruptcy of economic vision of Modi Government,” he said.
He said Jaitley and the Modi government have been “trapped” on the Rafale issue and that is why they are resorting to abuse against the opposition.
“Arun Jaitley is desperate in his attempt to stay relevant as a court jester’ to Modi Sultanate’. ‘Abuse, diversion’ and deception’ are the desperate tools of a ‘Lying -JAIT-LIE’.
“Instead of hiding behind the cloak of expletives for the opposition, let FM coherently answer politically relevant issues,” he said in a statement.
Surjewala said the Finance Ministry in a reply in Parliament on July 24, 2018 admitted that NPAS stood at Rs 2,51,054 crore when Congress-upa demitted power and they have increased to a whopping Rs 9,61,962 crore by March 2018.
As NPAS now stand as Rs 12,00,000 crore, he asked, “Are you lying in your fake agenda blogpost’ today or did you lie in Parliament? The nation wants to know”.
“We dare you to publicly state the amount of loans given during the tenure of Modi Government in last 52 months, along with details as to how much of those loans have become NPAS? How much worth of loans were ever-greened’ and restructured’ during the tenure of Modi Government?,” the Congress leader minister.