Mahua Moitra, a member of the Trinamool Congress, questioned the Center's management of the economy on Tuesday by using government data showing industrial contraction and posing the question, "Who is the Pappu now?" In a debate about requests for additional grants in the Lok Sabha, Moitra, the leader of the TMC, charged that the Narendra Modi administration had been "falsifying" statistics about India's growth. She also urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to take charge of the economy, which she claimed was in freefall. Every February, this administration makes us believe that the economy of this nation is booming, that we are the fastest-growing, most efficient global player, and that everyone is receiving jobs, cylinders, power, and pucca houses. The truth follows this fabrication with a limp, which it flies for eight to ten months, according to the TMC leader. "The word Pappu was created by this administration and the dominant party. You use it to disparage and denote utter incapacity.
