Does she eat, avocado? asks Chidambaram over FM Sitharaman’s comment on onions

“Finance Minister said yesterday that she doesn’t eat much onions. So what does she eat? Does she eat avocado?” Chidambaram took a jibe at finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman talking to reporters

Does she eat, avocado? asks Chidambaram over FM Sitharaman’s comment on onions
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Former finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday reacted to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's statement that she doesn't eat onions much.

“Finance Minister said yesterday that she doesn’t eat onions. So what does she eat? Does she eat avocado?” Chidambaram said to reporters while addressing media in the Parliament premises.

Earlier on Thursday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during a debate on the soaring prices of onion in parliament on Wednesday, said that she "doesn't eat onions much". She went on to say that she belongs to a family that has little use for the kitchen staple.

"I don't eat a lot of onions and garlic, so don't worry. I come from a family that doesn't have much to do with onions," Nirmala Sitharaman said.


She said this while listing the measures government has taken to check rising prices of onion and has initiated steps to improve technology for better storage of the kitchen staple.

The minister also dismissed the criticism that there was any fear among the investors by pointing out that FDI inflows have gone up to USD 209 billion during the first half of the current fiscal from USD 17 billion in the same period a year ago.

Replying to the debate on the first batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants, which was later passed by the Lok Sabha, she said the government has taken several steps to check rising prices of onion which include a ban on exports, the imposition of stock limit, import and transfer of onion from surplus to deficit area.

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