Jaitley Vs Sinha debate intensifies, Yashwant Sinha responds to ‘Hunting job at 80 statement’

Referring to his son's defence of the government, seen as a counter to his criticism of the Centre's handling of economy, Sinha sought to know why Jayant was shifted from the finance ministry if he was so competent to address the concerns raised by him. Photo: PTI

Yashwant Sinha, who was finance minister in the first NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, while sticking to his guns about his criticism of Jaitley and the government, had said a response to his article should have come from the minister concerned or a spokesperson for the government. Photo: PTI

Jaitley gave a point by point rebuttal to Yashwant Sinha and accused him of switching over and changing a narrative. / PTI IMAGE

Jaitley further hit back saying, “Because I don’t have luxury of being a former FM, I can conveniently forget the policy paralysis, 15% NPAs of 1998, I can conveniently forget the 4 billion reserve left in 1991”./ PTI IMAGE

The statement comes after Jaitley, during a book launch slammed Yashwant Sinha’s statement on him, and said that “It is convenient to pass comments being a former Finance Minister”, / PTI IMAGE