Viral: ‘Who Is Pappu Now?’ Lady MP’s Jibe At Modi

With the ongoing winter session of the Parliament, the cold weather and unforeseen rains across the nation seem to gather some warmth with the heated arguments of the politicians. Among these, is the speech by Mahua Moitra, TMC’s MP from Bengal attacked the central, which went viral.

Speaking about additional grants for 2022-23 requested by the Centre, Mahua accused them of making false claims.

“This government has us believe every February that this country’s economy is going great guns and are the fastest growing most efficient global player. Now we are in December and the government says it needs Rs 3.26 lakh crore of additional funds over and above the budget estimates. The government and the ruling party coined the term “Pappu” to use it to denigrate to signify extreme incompetence. Let me point out what the data and statistics tell us who the actual Paapu really is,” she said and read out data on the economy.

“NSO numbers were out yesterday. Industrial output has chunked by 4 per cent in October to a 26-month low. The manufacturing sector contracted 5.6 per cent. Manufacturing is still the biggest generator of jobs. 17 of the industries sectors that make up the index of industrial production have recorded negative growth rates. Forex reserves have fallen by 72 billion dollars in under a year. The Honourable Finance Minister yesterday during question hour mentioned how apparently 50 per cent of FII inflows into emerging markets are coming into India. Wonderful. But her colleague, the Minister of State for External Affairs, just last Friday, in response to a question in this very House that almost 2,00,000 people — 1,83,741 people — renounced their Indian citizenship in the first ten months of 2022. This exodus of 2022 takes the total number of Indians renouncing Indian citizenship under this government in the past nine years, since 2014, to over 12.5 lakh people. Is this a sign of a healthy economic environment? Of a healthy tax environment? Who’s the Pappu now?”, she questioned.