Congress fumes over Jaitley's ease of corruption remark

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's tweet likening UPA rule to "ease of doing corruption" has left the Congress party fuming. Congress leader Kapil Sibal told news agency ANI that Jaitley must not forget that he is the finance minister of millions of people who do business and just of the taxpayers

"He must realise the day they feel that there is ease of doing business is the day that they will appreciate the Finance Minister. So, the Finance Minister should not rely on World Bank report given in respect with Delhi and Mumbai which deals with creamy layers of business in our society," Sibal told ANI.

Jaitley had on Wednesday hit back at Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings and said that under NDA rule "ease of doing business" has replaced "ease of doing corruption". "The difference between the UPA and NDA - The ease of doing corruption has been replaced by the ease of doing business," Jaitley had tweeted. While reffering to India's 30 place jump in World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings, the Congress vice president had earlier said "everyone knows the truth".

"Sabko maloom hai 'ease of doing business' ki hakikat, lekin khud ko khush rakhne ke liye 'Dr Jaitley' yeh khyaal acha hai (Everyone knows the truth about ease of doing business, but let Dr Jaitley keep himself happy thinking about it)," tweeted Rahul. Both the leaders have been involved in a war words over several issues including demonetisation, implementation of the GST and GDP growth rate.