Bengal FM tells Sitharaman her supply-side policies have 'utterly failed'

Asks her to restrain 'spin doctors' from giving misleading picture of the economy

A day after North Block exuded confidence about the economic recovery, West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra shot off a letter to the union finance minister Nirmal Sitharaman asking her to change direction of her policies to boost demand as the common people are reeling under the economic distress of high unemployment and inflation.  

"Your government's supply side policies have utterly failed. The common people are being hit from multiple directions. This is a tragic outcome arising from your government's utterly wrong macroeconomic policies," Mitra told Sitharaman in the letter.

He said the common people are suffering from "deep" distress