The UPA inherited an upbeat economy from the NDA and ran it to the ground

The Vote-on-Account in Parliament was a valiant effort to showcase a decade of the UPA’s disastrous performance on the economy front in an election year. It was an electoral imperative for the Finance Minister to repackage reality in terms of trumped up numbers. He claims that the trend growth rate during the period that the NDA was in power was below what the UPA has delivered in its two consecutive terms.