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February 17, 2014
In Parliament today, BJP leader and a former finance minister in the NDA government, Yashwant Sinha, said that the budget speech was written to primarily reply to Narendra Modi.
In an apparent reference to Chidambaram's 2009 victory in Lok Sabha
polls from Sivaganga after a recounting of votes, the Gujarat chief
minister described him as the "recounting minister" and charged him with
displaying 'excessive arrogance' while leaving the country's economy in
bad shape.
"UPA government has a recounting minister. He lost (the election) but
won in recounting. He is from Tamil Nadu. He thinks he was the first in
the queue when God was distributing knowledge," Modi said without
naming Chidambaram.
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