Nirmala Sitharaman stated that the employee's death was due to an inability to handle workplace pressure, which drew sharp criticism from Congress, accusing the Minister of "victim-blaming."

In the wake of a young EY employee’s death, allegedly due to extreme work pressure, FM Sitharaman stirred up a controversy when she opined that families should teach children to cope with stress.

The Congress attacked Sitharaman for her comments saying “the ruling regime” and the FM “can only see the pain of corporate giants” and “not the pain of the hardworking and toiling young generation”.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has called for stress management lessons and practicing divinity to develop inner resilience, following the death of a young Chartered Accountant employed with Ernst & Young India.

The Union minister’s remark came in light of the death of a young accounting firm employee due to an alleged exploitative work environment.

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday, in an apparent reference to the recent death of a young CA professional employed with Ernest and Young (EY), called for “stress management lessons” in colleges and universities.

While speaking about the tragic death of Ernest and Young's (EY) former employee Anna Sebastian Perayil apparently due to work pressure, India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday (September 22) called out the colleges and universities to provide “stress management lessons” to the students.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has called for stress management lessons to be imparted by colleges and universities that will help increase the students’ inner strength, comments made in apparent reference to the death of a young CA professional employed with EY that came under sharp criticism from opposition Congress which described her remarks “outright cruel.