P Chidambaram – Former Union Finance Minister:

• Thank you Honourable FM Nirmala Sitharman for acknowledging that the Additional Expenditure can be met only by Additional Borrowing.
• Thank you for confirming what I said in my column today.
• We are not agreed on the amount of Additional Expenditure involved in your PMGKY and 5-tranche package.
• When you do the Additional Borrowing we will know the answer.
• The Additional Borrowing and Additional Expenditure (over and above the Expenditure Budget of Rs 30,42,230 crore) will be the true measure of the Fiscal Stimulus.