“Don’t Blame God For Man-Made Disaster”: P Chidambaram’s Dig At Centre
In a sharp response to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s “Act of God” comment on the impact of coronavirus on the economy, Congress leader P Chidambaram said today: “Don’t blame God for a man-made disaster.”
The former Finance Minister, in an interview to NDTV a day after a 24 per cent drop in the GDP signaled India’s worst economic contraction on record, also called the government’s relief package “a joke”.
“Don’t blame god. In fact you should thank god. God has blessed the farmers of the country. The pandemic is a natural disaster. But you are compounding the pandemic, a natural disaster, with a man-made disaster,” Mr Chidambaram said, asked what he would advise Nirmala Sitharaman, from one Finance Minister to another.
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