Will PM reply to Manmohan, Rahul charges on economy?

Mumbai:  With the Congress firing repeated salvos at the BJP government ahead of the Maharashtra elections blaming it for the country’s precarious economic situation, all eyes are on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s only rally in Mumbai on Friday evening for his response.
As the election date nears (October 21), the Congress has been firing in all directions. Addressing a rally in Mumbai last Saturday (Oct 13), party leader Rahul Gandhi declared that the economy under former prime minister Manmohan Singh was very strong, flourished and had earned the admiration of the whole world.
“Under the UPA government, the Indian economy was very strong and could challenge even the US economy. The whole world praised our economic management. Now, under the present government, what is the status?” Gandhi asked.
Nirmala Sitharaman hit back Congress Though the BJP kept mum in Maharashtra, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hit back at the Congress from the USA by attributing the present economic ills to the tenure of the former PM Singh and ex-Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan.
On Thursday, Singh himself travelled to the country’s commercial capital and in a surprise move toned down the Congress line on RSS ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Article 370.
At a packed media conference, the former prime minister also delivered a no-holds barred eye-opener on the status of the economy, both in the state and the country.