Sinha calls Chidambaram '4.8 per cent growth minister'

February 25, 2014 22:01

Days after Narendra Modi's barb of "recounting minister" targeting Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, another senior BJP leader today hit out at him over handling of the economy and dubbing him "4.8 per cent growth minister".

"Whenever he took over (reins of Finance Ministry), there had been dip in the country's growth rate," former finance minister Yashwant Sinha said without naming Chidambaram, adding his "arrogance had no limits."

Addressing a meeting on the current state of affairs organised in Chennai by the BJP, Sinha, also a former finance minister, said country's growth rate had plummeted from over eight per cent to less than five per cent when the BJP took over in 1999.

The NDA government had to pull back the economy battling many challenges.

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