TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Chennai on the Ukraine war: As regards the bearing that the crisis will have on our immediate imports and exports to Ukraine, we’re rightly worried about what comes from there. But I’m more worried about what will happen to our exporters, particularly farmer sector to Russia and Ukraine.
“So, on both these issues, I would have a comprehensive…we’re already looking at the emergent situation. But I will have to have a complete assessment through the various concerned ministries and only then be in a position to comment on it.
“But you can be assured that we are fairly seized of the matter in its granular form because it’s going to have an impact on the essentials which come.” That’s government speak when you have no clue on how to handle the Ukraine crisis will have on the economy.
