New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday hit out at the BJP-led government at the Centre for not releasing the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) numbers for April 2020 and wondered if it would lock them up in a safe vault to be opened after 20 years.

“Economy is in safe hands, says the FM. It is in such ‘safe’ hands that the government will not release the IIP numbers for April 2020! Will the government lock up the IIP numbers in a safe vault to be opened only after 20 years,” he asked on Twitter.

The month of April saw imposition of a lockdown across the country to contain the COVID pandemic.

In view of the lockdown, industrial activity was badly hit during the month.