Congress leader Shashi Tharoor slammed the government for the ambiguity of some claims and plans that were laid out as part of the Budget 2017 speech by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Criticising Finance Minister's deviation from his earlier fiscal consolidation roadmap, Tharoor saw pegging of fiscal deficit at 3.2 percent of GDP for 2017-18, up from the earlier target of 3 percent, as a macroeconomic miss.
Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of doublespeak, Tharoor, the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram said, "It was amusing for us, having seen them attacking us on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the Prime Minister saying it is a monument to government failure, and now they are taking credit for expanding it and funding it more," he said.
He also added liberalisation of FDI, which was one of the announcements of Budget 2017, to the list of issues the BJP had opposed the UPA on while in Opposition.
Tharoor also slammed the government for no announcements on the road map to attack the sources of black money.
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