New Delhi, Oct 15 (TIWN) Taking cue from an article by Finance Minister's husband in a newspaper, the Congress on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Modi government over the state of the Indian economy. The party asserted that P. Prabhakar, Nirmala Sitharaman's husband, is a senior economist and his views are based on facts.

Linking the economic slowdown to the ruling BJP’s politics, the Congress said on Tuesday that the saffron party’s project to turn India into a majoritarian nation has “completely and absolutely crippled” the Indian economy.  Condemning the “prolonged detention” of former finance minister P Chidambaram, it said the BJP has put a person, who presented a dream budget and took care of the economy when it was in crisis, under arrest.