Nirmala Sitharaman, the finance minister, and A Revanth Reddy, a congressman, got into a heated argument Monday in the Lok Sabha on the depreciation of the rupee and the state of the economy as a whole. Revanth Reddy, who represents Telangana's Malkajgiri in the Lok Sabha, pointed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's previous comment on the rupee's depreciation that he had made while he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat in his speech. According to a Telangana Congress MP who quoted Modi, it was reported that the rupee had entered the intensive care unit when it was trading at 66 to the dollar. So it appears that the rupee is moving toward the mortuary at the current price of 83.20. In response to the query, Sitharaman stated that despite having the world's fastest-growing economy, the opposition was "jealous," had a problem with it, and misunderstood it as a joke. If the member remembers the statement, the Finance Minister remarked, then
