How many SC/ST are there in Rajiv Gandhi Foundation… Finance Minister asked many questions at once on Rahul's claim

New Delhi: While speaking on the budget, the most discussion was about Chakravyuh and Halwa Ceremony. Rahul Gandhi had raised questions that there was no Dalit officer among those who prepared the budget. After his statement, there was a discussion that the Finance Minister would definitely say something on this. While responding to the discussion on the budget on Tuesday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman fiercely targeted Rahul Gandhi. She said that asking the caste of the officers preparing the budget and the officers involved in the Halwa Ceremony is a conspiracy to divide the society into many sections. Along with this, she also asked how many SC-ST people have got jobs in Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. On the Leader of Opposition's attack on Halwa Ceremony, the Finance Minister asked since when has it become a photo event.

They talk about reservation… Finance Minister targeted them
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman read a quote of Pandit Nehru about SC in the Lok Sabha. In this, he had talked about opposing reservation. The Finance Minister said that during the Indira Gandhi government, the Mandal Commission report came which was ignored. This is the same Congress whose slogan was 'Na Jaat Par Na Pat Par, Muhurat Lenghe Haath Par'. And today people are being asked about OBC, SC, ST by showing photos. Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned an interview of Rajiv Gandhi in which he had said that idiots will not be promoted in the name of reservation. The Finance Minister said that today they talk about reservation.

How many SCs are there in Rajiv Gandhi Foundation?
The Finance Minister said that I want to know how many SCs are there in the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. There are nine people and none of them are SCs. There are 5 people in the board of trustees of the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust and there is no SC there either. Rahul Gandhi, while participating in the discussion on the budget on Monday, had claimed that 20 officials have worked in preparing the country's budget, but only one of them is a minority and one is an OBC (other backward class) and there is not a single Dalit or tribal among them.

Some lost their sons, some lost their fathers but still they could not come out
Sitharaman said that after the Halwa ceremony, the employees associated with it do not come out until the budget is released. Earlier they had to spend nine days and eight nights in isolation, but now they have to stay away from everyone for five nights and four days. They are able to come out only after the budget. This is necessary for the confidentiality of the budget. Referring to the challenges related to the preparations of this budget, she said, Deputy Manager Kuldeep Sharma participated in the budget preparations despite the death of his father and did not come out. Similarly, Subhash did not come out even after the death of his son. Rahul Gandhi's statement is an insult to such employees.