NEW DELHI:   On BJP senior Yashwant Sinha's lacerate criticism of the government's handling of the economy, the opposition party's vice president Rahul Gandhi has tweeted a jeer at  Gujarat, where he is wrapping up a three-day election campaign tour.

"Ladies & Gentlemen, this is your copilot & FM talking. Plz do up your seat belts & take buttress position. The wings have fallen off our plane," Mr Gandhi tweeted as he shared Yashwant Sinha's critique.Mr Sinha has directly blamed Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for what he  said is the "mess" the economy is in.

Rahul Gandhi has built his current attacks against the government around the economic slowdown, condemning it yesterday of taking important decisions like demonetization and the GST roll-out "without listening to anybody," decisions which, he said, "affected the backbone" of the country's economy.

"I shall be failing in my national duty if I did not speak up even now against the mess the Finance Minister has made of the economy. I am also convinced that what I am going to say reflects the sentiments of a large number of people in the BJP and elsewhere who are not speaking up out of fear," Mr Sinha has written in his article titled "I need to speak now," alleging that Mr Jaitley's many key roles in the government have not allowed him to focus on the economy as required.

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