Live! BJP: Chidambaram's budget speech was written as a reply to Modi

February 17, 2014 17:50

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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