May 14, 2026 10:34 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
ECI announces third phase of SIR; Himachal, J&K, Ladakh excluded for now | Storm fury in Uttar Pradesh: Death toll rises to 89 as rain, gale-force winds leave trail of destruction | Congress ends 10-day suspense, names V.D. Satheesan as new Kerala CM | Delhi woman allegedly gang-raped inside sleeper bus; 2 arrested | Vijay-led TVK wins Tamil Nadu floor test as AIADMK split plays out | Congress veteran Sonia Gandhi admitted to Medanta Hospital in Gurugram | PM Modi halves convoy size after austerity call | Mulayam Singh's younger son Prateek Yadav dies at 38 | Protests erupt in Delhi after NEET UG 2026 cancellation over alleged paper leak | AIADMK cracks widen after Tamil Nadu defeat; faction backs Vijay-led TVK government

Congress should not talk about Modi’s ‘Fit India movement’: Nirmala Sitharaman

| @indiablooms | Aug 29, 2019, at 10:33 pm

Guwahati, Aug 29 (IBNS): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday slammed Congress for mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Fit India movement’ and said that they ran an economy with double-digit inflation through their 10 years regime.

Nirmala Sitharaman hit back the Congress party and accusing the erstwhile ruling party of running a baseless campaign against Narendra Modi-led present government.

“Prices were sky-rocketing during their time. Scandal after scandal, even in the allocation of the basic endowment of this country – examples coal, 2G. Today there are cellphones in everyone’s hand. They could not control prices, they led the country into corruption, they led the country into exploiting public assets. Corruption was there, everyone knows what they did. There was nothing left without corruption during their time,” Sitharaman said.

The Union Finance Minister said in a press conference held in Guwahati that - "If managing economy was corruption if managing the economy was to have sky-rocketing inflation, they mastered it."

“So to talk about fit or unfit is not for Congress. They have not learnt their lessons from the defeat of 2014 and 2019 again because of their bad practices,” Sitharaman said.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.