West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra reacted sharply to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s economic package for migrant labourers, farmers and the urban poor, tweeting that the federal polity of India was being strategically undermined. In an interview with Ishita Ayan Dutt, Mitra says the Centre is neither paying states' dues nor allowing them the headroom to borrow more.
Edited excerpts: You have said the government of India is strategically undermining the federal polity of India. Can you elaborate? The press conferences of Finance Minister make it ...
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First Published: Thu, May 14 2020. 23:46 IST
