NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday mentioned she declined the provide of the BJP to contest elections pleading that she didn’t have the ‘sort of funds’ required for preventing the Lok Sabha polls. The minister mentioned that the BJP President (J P Nadda) gave her the choice to contest both from Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu.
“After thinking over a week or ten days, I just went back to say… Maybe not. I do not have that kind of money to contest. I also have a problem whether it is Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu. It’s also going to be a question of various other winnability criteria that they use…Are you from this community or are you from that religion? Are you from this? I said no, I do not think I am going to able to do it,” she mentioned.
Sitharaman was talking on the ‘Times Now Summit 2024’ right here. “I am very grateful that they accepted my argument…So I am not contesting,” she added. When requested why even the finance minister of the nation doesn’t have sufficient funds to battle Lok Sabha elections, she mentioned that the Consolidated Fund of India doesn’t belong to her.
She mentioned, “My salary, my earnings, my savings are mine and not the Consolidated Fund of India”. The ruling BJP has fielded a number of present Rajya Sabha members within the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, starting April 19. These embody Piyush Goyal, Bhupender Yadav, Rajiv Chandrasekhar, Mansukh Mandaviya, and Jyotiraditya Scindia.
Sitharaman is a Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka. The minister mentioned that she might be campaigning for various candidates. “I will also be attending a lot of media events. And going with the candidates like tomorrow I will be going for Rajiv Chandrasekhar campaign and so yes, I’ll be on the campaign trail,” she added.
