My biggest worry is Govt will spend RBI money to claim there is no slowdown: Tharoor

NEW DELHI: Taking a swipe at the BJP Government over the economic slowdown, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said his biggest worry was that it might spend on advertising the Rs 1.76 lakh crore taken from the RBI to claim there was no slowdown in the country.

Participating in an interactive session with Delhi University students organised by his party’s student wing NSUI, he claimed that the Government “specialised” only in sloganeering.

“My biggest worry about the economic slowdown is that the Government may spend the Rs 1.76 lakh crore they have taken from the RBI on advertisements and messages to tell you there is no slowdown,” Tharoor said.

Tharoor said that the slowdown is real as there is no positive story from any sector of the economy. (AGENCIES)