This BJP MP says 'no mehngai' India, then corners opposition on ‘revadi’ culture
The former MoS for Finance argued that the Modi government has ensured that the 'thali' (plate) of the poor is full of eatables and the people are shielded from the impact of inflation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis.
Inflation rate in India 2022: BJP leader and former Union Minister Jayant Sinha has said that there is no ‘mehngai’ (inflation) in the country. Participating in the debate on price rise in Lok Sabha on Monday, Sinha lashed out at the opposition parties saying "they are looking for ‘mehngai’ but unable to find it". Sinha, who is a Lok Sabha MP from Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh seat, said that opposition parties "must worry about inflation it is in their own states" as he went on to count freebies being offered in non-BJP ruled states.
In a veiled attack directed at Aam Aadmi Party and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, he said, “Delhi people have got a halwaai who keeps making jalebi and he has taken that to Punjab and now since elections are coming, that ‘Jalebiwala’ is going to Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.”
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“There are a lot of the ‘revadi’ people. In Rajasthan also choorma is being made and ghee is being added to it. We have to be careful of those making choorma, sandesh, jalebi and those reveriwalas who are destroying the country,” he said.
The former MoS for Finance argued that the Modi government has ensured that the 'thali' (plate) of the poor is full of eatables and the people are shielded from the impact of inflation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis. He claimed that the control of the government on the prices of essentials such as flour, milk and eggs has been unmatched.
'Inflation in India lower than US, Europe'
“You are looking for inflation but you are not finding it anywhere, because there is no inflation. Look at it from the point of view of the common person, we have filled the ‘thali’ of the common person,” Sinha said.
“We are lower in inflation than the US and Europe. When the US and Europe were around just two per cent, in the UPA’s time inflation was around 12 per cent. We have controlled inflation and did what UPA could not,” he asserted.
Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar and Mobile number trinity has provided a shield to the people against inflation, he argued. Sinha also listed the schemes of the government providing houses and toilets to the poor to praise the government’s performance.
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