'Jaitley wouldn't be there if I had been a job applicant'

September 29, 2017 08:03

Shortly after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, without taking names, described him as a job applicant@80, senior BJP leader and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha responded Thursday saying if I was a job applicant, he (Jaitley) would not be there in the first place.

Jaitley took a swipe at Sinha over his opinion piece, published in The Indian Express Wednesday, in which he blamed the minister for the mess in the economy.

Sinha wrote that the economy is in a downward spiral, its revival unlikely by the 2019 elections and a hard landing appears inevitable. He claimed that his views were shared by many people in the party who were not speaking up out of fear.

The former finance minister also slammed what he felt were efforts by the government to pit his son Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, against him on the issue of the handling of the economy.

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