India’s debt has tripled to ₹155 lakh crore in the nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, the Congress claimed on Saturday and demanded a white paper on the state of the economy.
Addressing a press conference, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate alleged the Modi government’s “economic mismanagement” is responsible for the present state of the economy and claimed that ₹100 lakh crore of debt has been added since Mr. Modi took charge as Prime Minister in May 2014.
“As Chief Minister of Gujarat, Mr. Modi used to blame those on the other side of the political spectrum as inefficient, incompetent and corrupt -- adjectives that today suit him and his government more than anyone else,” Ms. Shrinate said.
