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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday dismissed Finance Minister P Chidambaram's suggestion that Ram temple was an electoral issue for the party.
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said questions of lack of development, inflation and unemployment were the party's main focus this time. Prasad said the Ram janmabhoomi issue was an "eternal truth" for the party and discussed in the party's Palanpur resolution of 1989.
These remarks were a continuation of the back-and-forth trading of epithets - puerile, selective amnesia, distant memory, uttering white lies and spoiler - by Chidambaram and BJP leaders Prasad and Yashwant Singh in the last couple of days.
Sinha alleged Chidambaram had brought the Indian economy to its knees repeatedly in its three stints as finance minister. He said BJP was contesting 2014 elections on people-centric issues such as economic development, inflation, unemployment, education, health care, etc.
Prasad welcomed Chidambaram's rebuttal of Sinha's comments made on Sunday. "We are happy that the electoral debate is on economic issues. This is the first time the Congress has said something on the poor state of economy," he said but added it was a matter of concern that Chidambaram had got "retired hurt" in his very first attempt at responding to BJP's charges.
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said questions of lack of development, inflation and unemployment were the party's main focus this time. Prasad said the Ram janmabhoomi issue was an "eternal truth" for the party and discussed in the party's Palanpur resolution of 1989.
These remarks were a continuation of the back-and-forth trading of epithets - puerile, selective amnesia, distant memory, uttering white lies and spoiler - by Chidambaram and BJP leaders Prasad and Yashwant Singh in the last couple of days.
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On Sunday, Sinha posed 18 questions to Chidambaram on how the latter under his tenures as the country's finance minister contributed to decelerating growth.
Sinha alleged Chidambaram had brought the Indian economy to its knees repeatedly in its three stints as finance minister. He said BJP was contesting 2014 elections on people-centric issues such as economic development, inflation, unemployment, education, health care, etc.
Prasad welcomed Chidambaram's rebuttal of Sinha's comments made on Sunday. "We are happy that the electoral debate is on economic issues. This is the first time the Congress has said something on the poor state of economy," he said but added it was a matter of concern that Chidambaram had got "retired hurt" in his very first attempt at responding to BJP's charges.