Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman targets Arvind Kejriwal on the issue of free facilities

New Delhi :

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has demanded a debate on the increasing trend of promises to provide free facilities.

Responding to the allegation made by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal that the central government provides 'facilities' only to his friends from the corporate world, the Finance Minister said that Kejriwal is giving a perverse twist to the debate on free facilities. are giving.

Talking to reporters, Nirmala Sitharaman said, "The facility of health and education cannot be called 'free ki rewari'. No government of India has denied it. Hence classifying health and education as 'free'. Kejriwal is trying to inculcate a sense of fear and anxiety in the mind of the poor. There should be a debate on this issue."

Arvind Kejriwal is giving a perverse twist to freebies on Health and Education.

This is to scare the public.

We want a debate and discussion on freebies: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman



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He said that Kejriwal is deliberately presenting this argument in a wrong way.

No one is saying that it is wrong to provide facilities/benefits to the poor for free but to classify the write-off of loans as free or to say that the corporate tax rate cut is to benefit the corporate world. was done.

The central government believes that the opposition does not have a coherent strategy for long-term corrective measures, but is focused solely on winning elections and staying in power by promising 'free'.

Significantly, the 'free ki rewari' comment came to the fore when PM Narendra Modi, while inaugurating an expressway in UP, warned about providing free facilities to voters and called it 'very dangerous'.

The PM had said, "Today, efforts are being made to bring the culture of getting votes by distributing Revdi in our country. This is very dangerous for the development of the country. The people of the country, especially the youth, need to be careful with this culture. "

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