Veteran Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday took a jibe at the Budget 2023 presented by the Bharatiya Janta party (BJP)-led central government and said that growth will not be 7 per cent this year as claimed by the government.
Congress leader P Chidambaram in a tweet thread on Sunday alleged that Sharjeel Imam and 10 others were made "scapegoats" in Jamia Millia Islamia violence in 2019 during the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest.
Through his tweets, he addressed the issue of pre-trial incarceration and al
These properties were owned by Saradha Group and others -- Nalini Chidambaram, Debabrata Sarkar, former IPS and former MLA CPM Debendranath Biswas -- and properties of Anubhuti Printers and Publications owned by late Anjan Dutta, former Minister in Assam.
He said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman demonstrated how far removed the government is from the people and their concerns about life, livelihood and the growing inequality between the rich and the poor.
Opposition parties slammed the Union Budget 2023, the last full-fledged Budget of the Modi government in its second term, and said that the Budget offers no solution to address the rampant unemployment, rising inflation as well as the growing inequality between the rich and the poor.
The Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday called out Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar for peddling lies against him and his fellow colleague and Congress leader P Chidambaram on Twitter.
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed to hear the appeals against the anticipatory bail granted to former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram on daily basis from April 13.
"Suppose Parliament, by a majority, voted to convert the parliamentary system into a Presidential system. Or repeal the State List in Schedule VII and take away the exclusive legislative powers of the States. Would such amendments be valid?", Chidambaram tweeted.
Chidambaram also asked about infrastructure being built by China along the LAC on its side and said if buffer zones along LAC meant that Indian forces cannot patrol to the earlier points.
He also pointed out that at the time of demonetisation the currency in circulation was Rs 17.9 lakh crore and today, according to RBI, it is 32.18 lakh crore and actually the currency in circulation has increased.