The automobile sector in the country is under a grip of a prolonged slowdown with most major manufacturers reporting declining sales for several months. The August sales numbers also painted a grim picture with a 31.57 percent year-on-year decline.

To address the slump, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman during her August 23 press conference in a bid to spur demand in the sector announced that government bodies would upgrade their fleet with new vehicles and also clarified that BS IV vehicles purchased up to March 31, 2020 will remain operational for their entire period of registration and won't be ordered to keep off the roads once the BS VI norms come into effect from next year.

However, her efforts are yet to give the sector a fillip.

She created a flutter on Tuesday by blaming millennials for the auto sector slowdown.

"The automobile and components industry has been affected by BS-VI (Bharat Stage VI)

The millennials (and the rest) took to Twitter to have their say on the matter and soon enough #BoycottMillennials and #SayItLikeNirmalaTai were trending on the microblogging platform.

Here are some of the takes on Sitharaman's remark from Twitter:

Aviation industry is facing crisis because millennials prefer flying in PUBG plane #BoycottMillennials pic.twitter.com/nnDPwh75jq

— #PervySage_Jiraiyya ‏‎‎ஏழைகள் அவெஞ்சர் (@GreySasquatch) September 10, 2019

According to Nirmala ji

Stand up comedians are in loss because millenials are watching BJP press conferences.