FM Nirmala Sitharaman takes on P Chidambaram over Budget numbers

Chidambaram had said that projections given in the Budget were unrealistic considering the past trends

A day after P Chidambaram raised questions over the Union Budget projections in Parliament, calling them “unrealistic”, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday contested the figures presented by the Congress leader, suggesting he had drawn his conclusions incorrectly.   

Replying to the general discussion on the Budget in the Rajya Sabha, Sitharaman also took on the former finance minister for his remarks that the Modi government had not undertaken any structural reforms despite a huge mandate and that the government was unnecessary building hype over its aim of taking the economy to $5-trillion mark by 2024-25. 

Chidambaram had said on