Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Thursday said that remaining quarters of the fiscal may record "negative growth" and that for the first time since data was recorded methodically, the Indian economy has gone into a recession, as defined by economists.
Kamalakar Reddy, who had sought the BJP ticket, revolted against BJP leadership after the party decided to field M Raghunandan Rao and levelled serious allegations against the BJP nominee.
Former Finance Secretary said he "did not share a good and productive working relationship" with Sitharaman, who came to the finance ministry "with some pre-conceived notions about me"
Minister challenged the BJP leaders to reveal the number of jobs created in the past six years, and why the money promised by the BJP government was not deposited into people's accounts
Addressing the gathering at Posanpally village of Doulthabad Mandal in Dubbak Constituency on Saturday, the Minister has appealed to the citizens not to believe in false propaganda being carried out by the Opposition parties
She held a virtual meeting with secretaries of coal and petroleum & natural gas, along with the chairman and managing directors (CMDs) of 14 CPSEs belonging to these ministries, an official statement said.
Campaigning extensively across the Dubbak Constituency on Saturday, Minister called upon the people to vote for Sujatha to support the Chief Minister, K Chandrashekhar Rao
"Just because the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister call these measures an economic stimulus does not mean the economy will obey and get stimulated."
Minister suggested that the agriculture officials should encourage the farmers to cultivate Bengal gram, ground nut and other oil seeds during Yasangi instead of maize
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the states which received less apportionment of IGST for 2017-18, the Centre will next week transfer a cumulative Rs 24,000 crore to them