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Guwahati, Aug 29 : Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday slammed Congress for mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Fit India movement' and said thatthey ran an economy with double digit inflation through their 10 years regime.
Nirmala Sitharaman hit back the Congress party and accusing the erstwhile ruling party of running a baseless campaign against Narendra Modi-led present government.
"Who ran an economy with double digit inflation through 10 years that they were in power. They could not control that which basically affects the common man. Prices were sky-rocketing during their time. Scandal after scandal, even in the allocation of basic endowment of this country – examples coal, 2G. Today phones in everyone's hand. They could not control prices, they led the country into corruption, they led the country into exploiting public assets. Corruption was there, everyone know what they did. There was nothing left without corruption during their time," Nirmala Sitharaman said.
The Union Finance Minister said in a press conference held in Guwahati that - If managing economy was corruption, if managing the economy was to have sky-rocketing inflation, they mastered it.
"So to talk about fit or unfit is not for the congress. They have not learnt their lessons from the defeat of 2014 and 2019 again because of their bad practices," Nirmala Sitharaman said.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
