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If the Congress and its leaders cannot “contribute positively” to the nation, they should halt being “obstructionists”, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026).
In a station connected societal media, she besides went connected to database the Narendra Modi government’s achievements nether assorted societal assemblage schemes, asking if these were aimed astatine benefiting the Adanis oregon Ambanis.
“Since 2014 we proceed to service each assemblage and each conception of our nine done our policies and initiatives,” Ms. Sitharaman said. “Farmers, the poor, women, youth, MSMEs are astatine the halfway of our governance structure.”
The Finance Minister asked whether the 58 crore Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana accounts that person been created were for “Adani/Ambani”.
She besides questioned whether the achievements nether the Mudra Yojana, Vishwakarma Yojana, Internship scheme, e-Shram cards, VB-G RAM G Act, Ayushman Bharat, PM KISAN, Lakhpati Didi, Drone Didi, PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, SVANidhi, ECLGS 5.0, and respective different initiatives were for the payment of the industrialists.
“We are focused connected the payment of communal people,” the Finance Minister asserted. “If @INCIndia [the Congress] and its leaders cannot lend positively to nation-building, they should halt being obstructionists. A liable absorption does not prosecute successful fearfulness mongering.”
Earlier successful the day, Congress person Rahul Gandhi had attacked the government, saying that “a ferocious economical tempest is looming implicit our heads”. “In 12 years, what Modi ji built arsenic a operation — it was lone for Adani and Ambani,” Mr. Gandhi said astatine an lawsuit successful Raebareli. “And now, that precise operation is astir to travel crashing down. The stroke won’t onshore connected them — they person flight routes.”
“The stroke volition onshore connected you — connected the youth, the poor, the mediate class, the farmers, the labourers, the tiny traders — who were ne'er adjacent portion of that structure,” helium added. “Look astir you. Are you portion of that operation — oregon a unfortunate of that storm?”
