BJP guns for Chidambaram

The BJP has repeated its demand for Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram8217;s stepdown. Senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu in Madurai on Saturday said the Union Finance Minister 8220;should accept his failures and quit8221; instead of criticising the BJP. The former party president was referring to Chidambaram8217;s statement slamming the BJP8217;s National Executive resolution on price rise situation. 8220;If they don8217;t knowhow to govern, they should get out instead of criticising the BJP,8221; he said.

Meanwhile, in Delhi, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad lashed out at Chidambaram8217;s statement that 8220;the legacy of BJP/NDA was not only a slow growth rate but of unsound fiscal management8221;.

8220;A hostile Government like the UPA would have taken a very critical view of the performance of the NDA but the Economic Survey presented by the UPA Government for 2003-04, when NDA was in power praised our performance,8221; Prasad said. 8220;It was the UPA Government which is under the scrutiny of the common man8221; because of its 8220;repressive and grossly negligent8221; record of the past four years.

8220;By making factually incorrect allegations about the NDA Government, Chidambaram cannot escape his own responsibility,8221; he added.