New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi lashed out at the BJP government's handling of economic affairs and rising fuel and LPG prices, especially, recently announced a four-year National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP).

Rahul Gandhi said, "In the last seven years, we have seen a new economic paradigm. Demonetization on one side, and monetization on the other side".

He claimed that the demonetization impacted the working class. However, NMP benefitted a handful of friends of PM Narendra Modi.

"Farmers, labourers, small and medium businesses, MSMEs, salaried class, government employees and honest industrialists are demonetized. Who is being monetized? 4-5 friends of Narendra Modi ji - economic transfer is being done", he said.

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He argued that the LPG cylinder, petrol, and diesel price was low despite the high international market price during the UPA rule.

"People can argue that there is a rise in petrol and diesel prices in the international market. During the UPA govt in 2014, crude oil was priced at Rs 105, today it's Rs 71 - it was 32 per cent higher at our time. Gas was priced at Rs 880 in our time; today, it's Rs 653 - 26 per cent lower," he said.

Rahul Gandhi called out the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the reported GDP rate. He gave a new acronym to 'GDP'.

"Modi ji keeps saying that GDP is rising, Finance Minister says that GDP is showing an upward projection. I then understood what does it mean by GDP. It means 'Gas-Diesel-Petrol'. They have this confusion. The government earned Rs 23 Lakh Crores through GDP - not the Gross Domestic Product but the Gas-Diesel-Petrol. Where did this Rs 23 Lakh Crores go?"