Congress' P Chidambaram Takes Jibe At Centre Over PM's 'Tukde-Tukde' Remark
NDTV
The Government is recruiting 78,264 persons against 8,72,243 vacancies in the central government, leaving nearly 8 lakh posts vacant, he said.
Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday termed the Modi government as 'no data available or NDA' government as he tore into the FY23 Budget, saying it is short on welfare measures for the poor while crony capitalism has led to a surge in the number of billionaires and emergence of monopolies and duopolies.
Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling the Congress party the leader of 'tukde-tukde' gang, Mr Chidambaram said tukde-tukde means disruption which creates innovation and brings about a change.
Initiating a discussion on Budget 2022-23 (FY23) in the Rajya Sabha, he said while there is no word on the implementation of announcements made in the previous budgets, the government claims India is running fast but it is actually running in the same place.
Speaking just after PM Modi replied to a separate discussion where he launched a fresh broadside against Congress, Mr Chidambaram said had the Congress not been there, Rajya Sabha would not have become the Council of the States and instead, there would have been a Council of the Princes where "regional rulers with their shining armours and flowing turbans" would have been "speaking in praise of Queen Elizabeth-II".
