Congress asks PM: Who is India’s Finance Minister, Goyal or Jaitley? 

The Congress party on June 18 asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clarify whether Arun Jaitley is Union Minister of Finance, as per the Finance Ministry website, or whether Piyush Goyal is Union Minister of Finance, as per the Prime Minister’s Office website.

Addressing a press conference at AICC headquarters in Delhi, Congress spokesperson and former Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari also asked the Prime Minister to answer some fundamental questions about the economy of India under his tenure.

Tewari also put the following questions to the PM:

• Why has the revised GDP series still not been put out in the public domain?
• Is it not a fact that the Narendra Modi government is not releasing the data based on new base year because UPA's performance was better than NDA?
• Is it not a fact that the current account deficit for the current fiscal has widened to such an extent that international financial institutions are raising serious questions about it?

Tewari further said that in 2009 alone, after the global economic meltdown, the UPA II government had created 1 million jobs, but the Narendra Modi Government had hardly created 2.5 lakh jobs per year, despite promising to create 2 crore jobs. Tewari said that not having clarification on who exactly was the Finance Minister of India during a time of economic difficulty, reflects a sad state of governance.