Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the Centre should tell the country the truth about the state of the economy, arguing that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to citizens to curb non-essential spending indicated that the situation is “very bad“ and is likely to “worsen“.

Referring to the Prime Minister’s Sunday appeal asking people to avoid buying gold unnecessarily for a year and to cut down on foreign travel, Mr. Kejriwal said the burden of any economic distress should not fall only on the middle class.