Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley reeled out statistics in Lok Sabha to assert that the NDA government had brought down inflation and expressed hope that prices of essential commodites will come down further after a “good” monsoon.
After Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and alleged that the government had failed to control prices, particularly of the essential commodities, Jaitley contended that the NDA government had inherited high inflation from the UPA dispensation.
“Any form of bluster is not substitute of statistics,” he told the Congress Vice President while intervening in a debate on price rise and asked him to compare the status of inflation during the UPA government and that prevailing now.
Referring to Gandhi’s attack on Modi for criticising the then Congress-led government over inflation in February 2014, Jaitley said, “This is a topic of statistics and not sloganeering. The UPA had left government in a serious state and it is but natural that any contesting candidate before election would say that if I come to power, I will try to bring inflation down. No one should have any objection to that.”
Insisting that the Modi government had reduced inflation and kept it under control, the Finance Minister said he expects it to reduce further with a “good” monsoon.
From Agencies, Feature image courtesy indianexpress.com
