'Electoral bonds were one step better than what went before': FM Nirmala Sitharaman

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‘India's map will change': Sitharaman's husband warns against Modi's re-election "All that a political party needs to do to remain out of the tax net is to file an assessment...You have not followed the rule of law or the law of the land, and you expect to be treated differently," she said. Sitharaman also responded to questions about AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal's arrest. "Didn’t the Prime Minister, then the Chief Minister, appear before the CBI just before the Gujarat elections? He went and answered all the questions.

But now this has become a big deal. I think it has become a business in this country to create that kind of sympathy, victimhood and then say this government is awful," the FM said. Roadmap for financial sector reforms to be unveiled post polls Further, she firmly shunned that 'unemployment' is one of the key issues in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Sitharaman said the opposition parties are using the word "joblessness" to get some talking points. Tooting her own horn, FM Sitharaman said that the informal sector base has widened since the BJP came into power in 2014. She told the English Daily that the gig economy has grown exponentially but there is inadequate data with her to prove her point.

Farewell to FY24, with sterling GST collections "It is a fact that in India we do not have data that is reflective adequately of the labour situation on the ground. We collect data on formal employment, but formal employment doesn’t constitute a large chunk of all employment in the country," FM Nirmala Sitharaman told The Indian Express. Further on the allocation of funds to states by the Centre, the finance minister said that the NDA government has no business in curtailing the development of any state.