Wings have fallen off: Rahul's dig over Sinha article

September 27, 2017 14:07

Former Finance Minister and senior BJP party leader Yashwant Sinha's lacerating criticism of the government's handling of the economy provided Rahul Gandhi perfect fodder.

The Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has tweeted a taunt from Gujarat. ""Ladies & Gentlemen, this is your copilot & FM speaking. Plz fasten your seat belts & take brace position. The wings have fallen off our plane," Gandhi tweeted as he shared Yashwant Sinha's critique in the Indian Express newspaper.

Sinha has squarely blamed Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for what he has says is the "mess" the economy is in.

Rahul Gandhi has built his recent attacks against the government around the economic slowdown, accusing it yesterday of taking important decisions like demonetisation and the GST roll-out "without listening to anybody," decisions which, he said, "affected the backbone" of the country's economy.

Yashwant Sinha, who was finance minister in the BJP-led government of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has expressed concern at growth slowing, private investment shrinking, and has, much like Rahul Gandhi assessed last year's notes ban "to be an unmitigated economic disaster".

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