Chidambaram will be remembered as spoiler, arrogant leader: Yashwant Sinha

March 30, 2014 16:56

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha took a dig at outgoing FM P Chidambaram on Sunday saying that the Bombay Stock Exchange's sensitive index's rise coincided with the announcement that the latter wasn't contesting Lok Sabha polls 2014.

Addressing scribes at the BJP headquarters here, Sinha said, Chidambaram tried to bring down fiscal deficit very artificially. (As a result) The UPA is leaving a huge burden of subsidy on the next government.

And added, "The Finance Minister will be remembered in history as a spoiler and an arrogant leader."

Continuing his tirade against the outgoing United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Sinha said that the Congress-led government showed no concern for the poor and downtrodden strata of the society.

"UPA has no concern for BPL families,the last survey was done by NDA in 2002, since then there's been no new survey," said Sinha.

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