Congress MP Manish Tewari on Thursday recalled the time that the BJP had mocked the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime for the falling rate of the rupee and noted that the current rate has far exceeded even the age of Prime Minister Narendra Modi now.

Tewari said that during the time of the UPA leadership, the BJP had mocked the government for the falling rate, with BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad saying in 2013, “The worth of the Indian rupee against the dollar was equivalent to Rahul Gandhi’s age when the United Progressive alliance (UPA) came to power. Today it is equal to Sonia Gandhi’s age, and very soon it will touch Manmohan Singh’s age.”

Recalling the more than a decade-old statement, Tewari asked the BJP, “Today the Rupee is at 90.19 to the USD Whose age is equal to?

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