P Chidambaram – Former Union Finance Minister :

• The government has decided to “do nothing”.
  
  
• Whether it be the economy or the pandemic, the government has left the fate of 138 crore people to the gods,
  
  
• One said that the economy will contract between 5 and 7 per cent.
  
  
• The other said the economy could grow up to 1 per cent!
  
  
• No wonder, the government is like a deer caught between the headlights – paralysed and unable to move in either direction
  
  
• In interviews to the same media outlet (The Wire) two economists of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council reached diametrically opposite conclusions on growth in 2020-21