Speaking at an event here, the Finance Minister said that she doesn't have the money required to contest election besides several other winnability factors also not being favourable.
"(The) Party did ask me but after thinking over it for a week or 10 days I just came back to say, maybe not," Sitharaman said at the event organised by media outlet Times Now.
She further said, "...I don’t have that kind of money to contest. I also have a problem because whether it is Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu it is also going to be a question of various other winnability criteria that they use. Are you from this community or are you from that religion, are you from this... I said, no, I don’t think I will be able to do it."
