Band-Aid For Bullet Wounds: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed the Union Budget as a ‘band-aid for bullet wounds,’ saying that the Centre was ‘bankrupt of ideas’. He said solving the economic crisis demanded a paradigm shift.

“A band-aid for bullet wounds! Amid global uncertainty, solving our economic crisis demanded a paradigm shift,” Gandhi said in a post on X The Congress earlier criticised the Union Budget as bereft of cure to ‘illnesses’ of stagnant real wages, lack of buoyancy in mass consumption, sluggish rates of private investment, and a complicated GST system that the economy is suffering from.