May the farce be with you: Rahul Gandhi's latest dig at Arun Jaitley over growth forecast

To take a dig at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi used a cult phrase from the Star Wars series. When FM Arun Jaitley unveiled a 9 lakh crore plan to boost the economy, Gandhi tweeted "Dear Mr Jaitley, May the Farce be with you".

Rahul Gandhi mocked the growth forecast and called it a "farce".

He quoted a tweet by the Press Information Bureau, the government's official publicity wing, which said that real GDP growth average was 7.5 per cent in the last three years.

Dear Mr. Jaitley, May the Farce be with you. pic.twitter.com/Dxb5jFCaEa

- Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) October 25, 2017

The table accompanying the PIB tweet said "IMF Forecast" said that 8.2 per cent growth was achieved in 2015-16, temporary economic slowdown was bottoming out and the GDP was projected to grow much faster in the times to come.

The war of words between Rahul Gandhi and Arun Jaitley began when the former took a jibe at Modi government's newly-introduced Goods and Services Tax (GST) and called it Gabbar Singh Tax .

Congress GST= Genuine Simple Tax Modi ji's GST= Gabbar Singh Tax =''ये कमाई म��े दे दे"

- Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) October 24, 2017

Responding to this, Jaitley said those people who are used to scams like 2G and spectrum will have objections to the GST. He said if the opposition got their fundamentals right, they'd be able to appreciate the reasoning behind the taxation regime.

Arun Jaitley had on Tuesday said the Indian economy is on a strong wicket and expressed confidence in its macroeconomic fundamentals. He had also maintained that India has been the fastest growing major economy for the last three years and the government is attempting to maintain a high growth rate.

(With inputs from IANS )