NEW DELHI: Criticising the Modi government for freezing dearness allowance (DA) of central government employees, Congress on Friday alleged the Centre was attacking the common man during the coronavirus crisis while continuing with its multi-crore “vanity projects”. It accused the government of giving a signal to the private sector and state governments to cut salaries and dearness allowance.“It is an insensitive and inhumane decision of the government to cut DA of central employees, pensioners and soldiers serving the public despite battling coronavirus, instead of suspending the multi-million crore bullet train project and the Central Vista beautification project, Rahul Gandhi tweeted.Congress spokesman Randeep Surjewala said, “The government of India, instead of healing the people and giving them financial support during the pandemic, is hurting the people of India.” Surjewala said while DA had been taken away from 1.13 crore employees and pensioners and would save the Centre Rs 38,000 crore, the government was going full steam ahead on the Rs 20,000 crore Central Vista project and has refused to deduct any expenditure on the Rs 1.10 lakh crore bullet train project.Congress questioned why the Centre had not imposed 30% cut on wasteful government expenditure which would come to around Rs 2.5 lakh crore. Surjewala said on March 23, the government passed a budget of Rs 30.42 lakh crore and any resource crunch has to be met by cutting down wasteful and vanity expenditure rather than hitting the earnings of the common man.