Home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said that he was disgusted on deliberate distortion of statement on middle-class. I did not mock or chide anyone but made a matter of fact statement," he was quoted as saying.

Chidambaram on Tuesday said that the middle class is  ready to pay for mineral water and ice-cream but can't bear an increase of Re 1 in price of wheat and rice. BJP on Tuesday had lashed out at Chidambaram for his remarks saying he has shown insensitivity towards them and ridiculed them.

"It seems that Mr Chidambaram has inappropriately made a scandalous remark against the middle class and is ridiculing them. BJP would treat this remark as a complete hate statement reflecting the inner contradictions of the government itself," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said.