After Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's scathing remarks on the Reserve Bank of India's "lending spree", Governor Urjit Patel may consider stepping down from the role, a CNBC-TV18 report said. "RBI governor may even consider resigning. All options on the table," the report mentioned. Quoting a source, the report said that there has been an "irreversible breakdown between the RBI governor and the government".

Attacking Congress President Rahul Gandhi in a post titled 'Is the 'Clown Prince' out-clowning himself?', Union Minister Arun Jaitley said Rahul is living in a state of "self-delusion". Stating that Rahul concocts an alternative if facts don't suit him, Jaitley said he repeats a false narrative a dozen times to convince himself that "falsehood is in fact the truth".

Arun Jaitley stated that govt resources are going to expand. Jaitley said, “Government resources in this country are going to expand, and they are going to expand at a much faster pace. There is no question of them being static or narrowing down. The reasons for this are clear – the economy is increasingly becoming formalised.”