<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's husband Parakala Prabhakar on Monday said that the government is in a denial mode over India’s economic slowdown even as data in the public domain show that many sectors have a challenge situation at hand. </p>.<p>In his piece published in The Hindu, Prabhakar, 60, a former communications adviser to the government of Andhra Pradesh, also criticized the ruling party for attacking the Nehruvian economic framework, saying that the party think-tank "fails to realise" that the attack remains more a political assault and can never graduate to an economic critique.</p>.<p>In reaction to his critique, Sitharaman said from 2014 to 2019,"we have done fundamental reforms". She further pointed out a list of measures including the Goods and Services Tax, Aadhaar and the delivery of cooking gas that the government has taken to boost the economy growth. </p>.<p>Prabhakar had pitched that the BJP should embrace the PV Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh economic architecture to steer the economy out of choppy waters. </p>.<p>"Constructs such as 'Integral Humanism' could not be rendered into practical policy initiatives in the modern market-driven, globalised world. The BJP could, therefore, have released itself from that limiting agenda by wholly embracing and even owning the Rao-Singh economic architecture," Prabhakar wrote in the Hindu article titled "A lodestar to steer the economy".<br /> </p>
<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's husband Parakala Prabhakar on Monday said that the government is in a denial mode over India’s economic slowdown even as data in the public domain show that many sectors have a challenge situation at hand. </p>.<p>In his piece published in The Hindu, Prabhakar, 60, a former communications adviser to the government of Andhra Pradesh, also criticized the ruling party for attacking the Nehruvian economic framework, saying that the party think-tank "fails to realise" that the attack remains more a political assault and can never graduate to an economic critique.</p>.<p>In reaction to his critique, Sitharaman said from 2014 to 2019,"we have done fundamental reforms". She further pointed out a list of measures including the Goods and Services Tax, Aadhaar and the delivery of cooking gas that the government has taken to boost the economy growth. </p>.<p>Prabhakar had pitched that the BJP should embrace the PV Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh economic architecture to steer the economy out of choppy waters. </p>.<p>"Constructs such as 'Integral Humanism' could not be rendered into practical policy initiatives in the modern market-driven, globalised world. The BJP could, therefore, have released itself from that limiting agenda by wholly embracing and even owning the Rao-Singh economic architecture," Prabhakar wrote in the Hindu article titled "A lodestar to steer the economy".<br /> </p>