{"id":4310,"date":"2020-01-10T08:23:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T08:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2020-01-10T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T08:23:53","slug":"next-time-invite-finance-minister-to-pre-budget-meet-congress-in-jab-at-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4310","title":{"rendered":"Next time invite finance minister to pre-budget meet: Congress in jab at BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, <\/strong>\u00a0The Congress took a swipe at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over her absence at a pre-budget meeting with economists and experts at the Niti Aayog here which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s a suggestion, next budget meeting, consider inviting the Finance Minister,\u201d the Congress said on its official Twitter handle, using the hashtag \u201cFindingNirmala\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many men does it take to do a woman\u2019s job,\u201d the opposition party said in another tweet, using the same hashtag.<\/p>\n<p>Incidently, while Nirmala Sitharaman was absent, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar were present at the PM\u2019s pre-budget meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress tagged a tweet of the BJP that said the finance ministry has invited suggestions for the Union Budget 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCitizens from all walks of life are welcome to be a part of this exercise,\u201d the tweet on the BJP twitter handle said.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was not present as the Prime Minister met economists, private equity and venture capitalists, business leaders and agri experts at Niti Aayog and called for focussed efforts from all stakeholders to achieve the target of nearly doubling the size of the Indian economy to USD 5 trillion by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>BJP sources said Sitharaman was holding pre-budget meetings with party workers at the BJP headquarters at that time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"playstream_out\" class=\"playstream_out\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div id=\"ad_container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, \u00a0The Congress took a swipe at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over her absence at a pre-budget meeting with economists and experts at the Niti Aayog here which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. \u201cHere\u2019s a suggestion, next budget meeting, consider inviting the Finance Minister,\u201d the Congress said on its official Twitter handle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}