Congressional leaders dig into Modi’s announcement of the ₹ 20-lakh-crore package



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“No Action, Messaging Only (NAMO),” former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh created an acronym on Wednesday to describe Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speechh in which he announced a stimulus package of ₹ 20 lakh crore.

A day after Mr. Modi’s speech, several congressional leaders turned to social media to react to the announcement.

Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the ads were like a blank page.

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“Yesterday, PM gave us a headline and a blank page. Naturally, my reaction was a target! Today, we expect the FM to fill in the blank page. We will carefully count each ADDITIONAL rupee that the government will actually infuse into the economy. We will also carefully examine who receives what. “Mr. Chidambaram said in a series of tweets.

“And the first thing we will look for is what poor, hungry and devastated migrant workers can expect after having walked hundreds of kilometers to their home states. We will also examine what the bottom half of the population (13 crore families) will get in terms of REAL MONEY, ”he added.

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Investigating Mr. Modi’s preference for acronyms and phrases to explain his government policy, Mr. Ramesh tweeted: “Last night, the Prime Minister did what he thought was best. Maximum packaging, minimal meaning. It was a classic NAMO case. No action messages only. “

Another spokesman for Congress, Jaiver Shergill, used the ₹ 20 lakh crore speech to draw a comparison to the BJP’s pre-2014 election promise to bring back extraterritorial black money and deposit ₹ 15 lakh in the accounts of every Indian family.

“BJP Government is an expert in showing stars to people in broad daylight. We sincerely hope that the promised package of ₹ 20 lakh crore is not made in the same factory and is not sewn from the same fabric as the promise of ₹ 15 lakh to each Indian, such as the promise to clean Ma Ganga and promise to make the India has a $ 5 trillion economy, “said Shergill.

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