As former finance minister P Chidambaram made his way out of a courtroom on Tuesday after the CBI special court remanded him in two more days of custody in the INX Media case, journalists waiting outside sought his comments. After greeting them with a namaskar, the seemingly unflappable Chidambaram quipped, “Five per cent. Do you know what 5 per cent is?" As the CBI functionaries took him away, he raised his right hand to show the five fingers, reminding people of the recently announced April-June GDP growth figure (5 per cent), the lowest in six years. The exchange was captured on video and shared widely on social media.
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