Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday attacked the union government over the value of the rupee peaking at its “lowest level ever” against the US dollar, demanding answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on this matter also reminded him of his attacks on the UPA.
The rupee degraded 18 paise to breach the 86-mark against the US dollar for the first time on Friday. It was positioned at 86.04 against the US currency.
Priyanka Gandhi said in a post on X, “The value of the rupee against the dollar has reached its lowest level ever. For the first time in history, the value of one dollar has become 86.4 rupees.
She further said that during Manmohan Singh’s term, when the value of one dollar was 58-59 rupees, Narendra Modi, who was then-Gujarat CM, used to relate the value of the rupee with the esteem of the government.
The Congress general secretary noted PM Modi’s attacks on the then UPA government a decade earlier, saying that he formerly said that ‘he knows everything and the currency of any country cannot fall like this.’
“Today he himself is the prime minister, and all the records on the fall of the rupee have been broken. He should answer to the people of the country,” Vadhra said.
The rupee degraded 18 paise to breach the 86-mark against the US dollar for the first time on Friday as it failed to defy pressure from a stronger American currency and a huge outflow of foreign funds.
