{"id":323164,"date":"2020-05-13T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323164"},"modified":"2020-05-13T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T05:01:11","slug":"pm-modi-gave-us-headline-and-blank-page-p-chidambaram-on-rs-20-lakh-crore-economic-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-gave-us-headline-and-blank-page-p-chidambaram-on-rs-20-lakh-crore-economic-package\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018PM Modi gave us headline and blank page\u2019: P Chidambaram on Rs 20 lakh crore economic package \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322032 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chidambaram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/chidambaram.jpg 456w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/chidambaram-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/chidambaram-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/>Former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said PM Modi\u2019s address to the nation on Tuesday in which he announced Rs 20 lakh crore economic package was only a \u201cheadline and blank page\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cYesterday, PM gave us a headline and a blank page. Naturally, my reaction was a blank! Today, we look forward to the FM filling the blank page. We will carefully count every ADDITIONAL rupee that the government will actually infuse into the economy,\u201d Chidambaram tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe will also carefully examine who gets what? And the first thing we will look for is what the poor, hungry and devastated migrant workers can expect after they have walked hundreds of kilometres to their home states,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Finance Minister further said, \u201cWe will also examine what the bottom half of the population (13 crore families) will get in terms of REAL MONEY.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi in his address to the nation on Tuesday announced a special economic package and gave a clarion call for\u00a0\u2018Atmanirbhar Bharat\u2019. He noted that this package, taken together with earlier announcements by the government during COVID crisis and decisions taken by RBI, is to the tune of Rs 20 lakh crore, which is equivalent to almost 10% of India\u2019s GDP. He said that the package will provide a much needed boost towards achieving \u2018Atmanirbhar Bharat\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said PM Modi\u2019s address to the nation on Tuesday in which he announced Rs 20 lakh crore economic package was only a \u201cheadline and blank page\u201d. \u201cYesterday, PM gave us a headline and a blank page. Naturally, my reaction was a blank! Today, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323165,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323164\/revisions\/323165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}