Congress is super feku (bigger liar): Yashwant Sinha

23 Sep 2013 Evaluate

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha on Monday hit back at the Congress, and labeled the ruling party as 'super feku', after Finance Minister P. Chidambaram accused the opposition of staging 'a fake encounter with facts.'

Yashwant Sinha said that when Chidambaram was the Finance Minister in 1998 the growth rate was 4.8 percent. When we left office, it was 8.6 percent. Today, again, with Chidambaram as Finance Minister we are back to 4.8 percent. It shows that Chidambaram is a specialist in 4.8 percent growth rate and he added that When Chidambaram could not find any other fact to hide behind, and then he decided to take recourse to averages, and then claim that average in the first five years for UPA 1 was better than BJP's five years. But, that is not the issue. The issue is that we had given them a very healthy economy, which they have turned into a sick child; and from 8.6 percent, they have brought the growth rate back to 4.8 percent. That is a fact that the whole world knows, and Chidambaram cannot deny that fact

Earlier, Chidambaram came out with a detailed growth data for the last several years, and specifically lashed out at Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections Narendra Modi for 'staging a fake encounter with facts' as far as the nation's growth is concerned. Chidambaram said if there was a golden period of growth, it was the five-year period under UPA I.

Praising the six-year tenure of NDA under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and party's veteran leader LK Advani, Modi had earlier said, 'Under Vajpayee government it looked like that the 21st century would be the century of India. But with his departure, the downfall started.' He futher added that the growth rate was 8.4 per cent but it came down to 4.8 per cent during the UPA's rule.

 

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