Chidambaram is right about ice-cream, says JD(U)

July 11, 2012 17:20

The JD(U) today took a dig at Home Minister P Chidambaram over his controversial ice-cream remark on price rise issue, saying the truth had "accidentally" come out from the mouth of a "supporter" of market forces.

"It is right. What wrong did he say? But Chidambaram is also a supporter of market forces and that is why he used the icecream imagery. How many poor eat icecream?.

"In fact a small truth has accidentally come out from the mouth of a supporter of market forces while he was actually trying to defend them," was the refrain of Sharad Yadav to Chidambaram's comment made yesterday.

The Home Minster had said in Bangalore yesterday that people are prepared to pay Rs 15 for a bottle of water and Rs 20 for a cone ice-cream, but protest against rise in wheat and rice price.

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