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Forget the alphabet jugglery, economic recovery is here to stay: FM

Debunks theory that recent upsurge was due to pent-up or festival demand, says food inflation is seasonal and will cool down

Finance minister, FM, Nirmala Sitharaman
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Sitharaman said she was not worried about inflation to the extent that there are seasonal ups and downs in prices

Dilasha SethIndivjal Dhasmana New Delhi
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday contested the observation in certain quarters that the recent economic recovery was due to the pent-up and festival demand and would soon wither away, saying every sector had showed that the revival would sustain. She also did not agree with the view that proper recovery would have to wait till 2022-23, and said it would happen next year itself and the vaccine would aid that process.
 
“Things are looking up in terms of recovery. I am not going into alphabet jugglery whether it is V, or K or any other alphabet, but every

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