Hitting out on the authorities, Senior Congress chief and former finance minister P Chidambaram on Saturday mentioned ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047 is a pipe dream and can stay so for a very long time on the present charge of progress.
Addressing a press convention on the Union Funds, Chidambaram additionally cited Chief Financial Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran to press his level.
Requested in regards to the authorities’s assertions of the purpose of constructing India developed by 2047, Chidambaram mentioned, “It’s a pipe dream as we speak and at this charge of progress, it should stay a pipe dream for a very long time.”
“Not solely I mentioned it, the Chief Financial Advisor has mentioned yesterday that except we develop at 8 per cent for 15 to twenty years, by 2047, we won’t grow to be a developed nation.
At 6-6.5 per cent, it should take one other 15-20 years,” the previous finance minister mentioned.
Asserting that the BJP-led Centre has “no new concepts”, Chidambaram mentioned Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is strolling on the “worn-out path” and never keen to interrupt free as Congress governments had completed in 1991 and 2004.
He mentioned the takeaway from the Union Funds 2025-26 is that the ruling BJP is wooing the tax-paying middle-class and the Bihar citizens.
The finance minister is “strolling on the worn-out path and never keen to interrupt free as we did in 1991 and 2004”, the Congress chief added.
