Retorting to opposition's criticism against the recent GDP percentage, the BJP on Friday said that the drop in economic activity is a temporary affair and that they will be disappointed soon.

Asserting that the opposition is entitled to criticize the government, BJP leader S Prakash said, "The drop in the GDP is a temporary phenomena, they will be disappointed in coming days."

Treading on the same path, another BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi said, the Congress must not forget that during their tenure, the GDP was as low as 4.25 percent.

"All these people should remember the time when they were in government and the kind of corruption which was going on. They must remember what kind of GDP the Congress government inherited from the BJP government and where they brought it. Would like to remind them that the GDP in their time was 4.25 percent," Lekhi said.

Former finance minister P. Chidambaram yesterday said the economy is going down rapidly under the Narendra Modi-led government.

"Economy is going down rapidly and if corrective measures are not taken then economy will decline further," Chidambaram said.