The Congress indirectly referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “Bad Santa” for implementing problematic schemes like the unified Goods and Services Tax (GST) and note ban.
In a tweet a day after Christmas, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said that in the rest of the world “an old man with a white beard” distributed gifts to people, while in India, a similar looking man did quite the opposite – took away public’s money and left them only with the socks.
It was obvious that Tewari’s jibe was indicated at Modi, whose Government still holds the GST and demonetisation as pillars of success.
The Opposition has been relentlessly pointing out the failure of both the schemes, saying they were hasty, ill-implemented and have slowed economic growth, especially for small businesses, an effect that is likely to last longer than a few fiscal quarters.