The Congress today hit back at Arun Jaitley for his Facebook post criticising the party, saying the senior BJP leader should write social media posts on who is India's finance minister and on the economic woes that "Modinomics has heaped upon India".
Union minister Jaitley, in a Facebook post titled 'The Congress Gave Slogans to Rural India -- Prime Minister Modi Gave Resources', said the Congress party in the 1970s and 1980s followed the model of "populist slogans" rather than "sound policy and actual expenditure for the welfare of the poor".
Asked about Jaitley's post, Congress's communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala, at a media briefing, said, "I would very humbly and with folded hands request Shri Arun Jaitley to write a Facebook post on who is India's finance minister. That is the most important thing he needs to do. He must solve that mystery."
Surjewala said Jaitley should write a Facebook post to clarify as to whether he is India's Finance Minister or Piyush Goyal is, so that "at least India knows, who is pushing the economy on the brink of such misery that the economy currently is."
The Congress spokesperson also urged Jaitley to write a post on the "economic woes that Modinomics has heaped upon India"
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