‘Clown prince’ lying on Rafale, loan waiver: FM

New Delhi, September 20

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today launched a scathing attack on Congress president Rahul Gandhi calling him “clown prince” and that he was “lying” about Modi government waiving Rs2.5 lakh crore of loans of 15 industrialists.

Taking to a Facebook blog to reply to Rahul’s charges made during his political rallies, Jaitley said not a single rupee of any debtor has been waived by the BJP government. Loans to the country’s 12 defaulters were given prior to 2014 and it was only the present government that was making recoveries, he said, adding that defaulters were losing their companies and assets as they were being auctioned to recover dues.

“You lied on the Rafale deal, you lied on NPAs. Your temperament to concoct facts raises a legitimate question – do people whose natural preference is falsehood deserve to be a part of the public discourse... The world’s largest democracy must seriously introspect whether public discourse should be allowed to be polluted by the falsehood of a ‘clown prince’,” he said in a blog titled “Falsehood of a Clown Prince”. — PTI