We don’t work for cronies but for common people: FM

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ Hitting back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Hum do, Hamare do remark, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that her government doesn’t work for cronies but for common people.

“Where are the cronies? They’re hiding probably in the shadow of that party which has been rejected by the people. The shadows who were invited to even develop a port. They invited, no open tenders, no global tenders,” Sitharaman said during her reply to the budget discussion in Lok Sabha.

“We don’t work for cronies, we work for common people,” she added. Gandhi had raised ‘Hum do, Hamare do’ slogan in the Lok Sabha to attack the government over farm laws.

“Years ago there was a family planning slogan — hum do, hamare do (We two and ours two), but just like Corona has returned in another form, this slogan too has made a comeback. Today, four people run the country — hum do, hamare do,” Gandhi had said, without taking any name.