The Congress today alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government had "left no stone unturned to mismanage" the Indian economy and had left it on "choppy waters".
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said the BJP-led NDA government and the prime minister have not understood one simple equation that social disharmony and economic progress cannot go hand in hand.
"Who is the country's finance minister? The PMO and the Finance Ministry websites have different claims," the Congress leader said.
The Indian economy has been on a "downward spiral since 2014", he claimed.
"It is because of the strong foundations and fundamental laid by the UPA during its 10 years, from 2004 to 2014, that the Indian economy still continues to work.
"Otherwise, the NDA-BJP government has left no stone unturned in order to mismanage the Indian economy and we would like to underscore that response by once again asking who is the finance minister of India?" he told reporters.
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"The reason why there has been such gross economic mismanagement over the past four years is because the NDA-BJP government and the prime minister have not understood one simple equation that social disharmony and economic progress cannot go hand in hand," Tewari said.
Social disharmony is the enemy of economic development, he said.
"Money is a coward, money goes to the safest harbour and unfortunately, the spectre of social intolerance, which has been created by the NDA-BJP government and their ideological fellow travellers is a complete anathema and is totally detrimental to any sustained, substantive economic activity," he said.
Tewari, a former union minister, asked the prime minister why his government was not coming out with GDP numbers