Finance Minister Harish Rao said that Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s comments on State’s finances and schemes being implemented by it were unfair, misleading and false.
In a statement issued here on Sunday, he sought to know whether the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s photos were displayed at fair price shops in any of the BJP-ruled States, including Gujarat when Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of that State and asked how far it was justified to bring such pressure on States run by elected governments.
He brought to Ms. Sitharaman’s notice that the BJP Government had scrapped several Centrally-sponsored schemes during the last eight years and even for the schemes being continued the Centre’s share was reduced by increasing the State’s contribution.
