Cong plenary: Chidambaram says next govt will face major economic crisis

Chidambaram said four years of Narendra Modi government has, rather than pulling them from poverty, pushed more people into it

The Congress party on Sunday said the country needed to be “rescued from the hands of incompetent economic managers” and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s philosophical belief in a “coercive economic regime” and “artificial principle of oneness”.

Presenting the resolution on the economic situation in India at the 84th plenary session of the Congress party, former finance minister P Chidambaram said the Modi government’s record on managing the economy has been abysmal, and whoever comes in the government 12 months from now will face a major crisis.

Chidambaram said four years of Narendra Modi government has, rather than pulling them from