Chidambaram, TV reporter

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP's) defeat in the Karnataka Assembly polls turned Finance Minister P Chidambaram into a TV reporter. As senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh emerged from Parliament, the senior Congress leader, who was being questioned on the elections by journalists, took the mike from a TV reporter and asked Singh, "Don't you credit the Congress with victory?" Singh, who was Chidambaram's predecessor in the finance ministry, agreed that "if you stop governance, people will vote you out". "He is a gentleman," Chidambaram said of Singh when he restored the mike to the reporter.