Reeling statistics while replying to a discussion on Budget 2022-23 in the Lok Sabha, she said inflation was in double digits and policy paralysis of the Congress-led UPA regime pushed India into the category of ‘fragile five’ economies of the world.
During her over 100 minutes reply, she said certainly there was an “Andh Kal in this country (during UPA 1 and UPA 2) and that was entirely due to the Congress.”
She further said there was ‘Andh Kal’ when Emergency was imposed by Congress and the 1991 crisis when the foreign exchange reserves of the country dropped just to two weeks’ import bill.
The minister was responding to Congress member Shashi Tharoor’s allegation that the Modi government is taking the country towards ‘Andh Kal’ instead of ‘Amrit Kal’.
Sitharaman said there was a time when corruption was rampant and everywhere there were headlines about scams.
“Every day there was headlines in the papers about corruption — coal scam, 2G scam, Antrix Devas scam, middlemen everywhere. The country did not know what was happening. It was dreadful to see the paper with yet another scam, that was Andh Kal,” she said.
Not knowing how to deal with the country after the global financial crisis, she said inflation touching double-digits and also the…
