Practise magical exercise to help economy: Rahul to PM

NEW DELHI: A day after slamming the government over a long budget speech which he said was short on delivery, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi tweeted a video of PM Narendra Modi exercising and suggested he should “practice his magical exercise” to help the country’s sagging economy.
On Saturday, Rahul had criticised the budget and said it contained no strategic idea, nor anything concrete and that it had toed a “hollow” approach that was “all talk and nothing happening”.
Tweeting a video of Modi doing yoga — the one shared by the PM to kickstart the Fitness Challenge — Rahul said Modi should practice his “magical exercise” routine to jumpstart the economy. “Dear PM, Please try your magical exercise routine a few more times. You never know, it might just start the economy,” he said on Twitter.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a slew of measures to boost economic growth but Congress said the government was in complete denial of the economy facing a “grave macroeconomic challenge”. It also claimed the government had given up on reviving the economy, accelerating growth and creating jobs.
Congress’s youth wing, Indian Youth Congress, which has lately been visible in its protests against the government on its economic policies and for its stand on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, released a video of young men and women — each wearing masks of different members of the Union cabinet — playing marbles on the road. The video, titled Modi’s government’s ‘Kancha-maar budget’ accused the council of ministers of having done little else than play with the lives of India’s youth.
Slamming the Centre for being an “event management government”, IYC president Srinivas V said, “The government made tall promises of running bullet trains. But instead of delivering on promises and being concerned for the future of India’s youth and unemployed, they’re only playing games at their expense.”