New Delhi: Buoyed by the Congress' showing in Karnataka, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, in a lighter moment, turned into a TV reporter today. The senior Congress leader grabbed a mike from a television reporter and thrust it front of senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh as the latter emerged from Parliament.
"Don't you credit Congress with victory?" the minister asked Mr Singh, his predecessor in the Finance Ministry before the Congress came to power at the Centre in May 2004. The veteran BJP leader didn't mince words, acceding that BJP had failed. "People vote for governance and if you stop governance, people will vote you out." he said.
"He is a gentleman", Mr Chidambaram later said, referring to Mr Singh, as he returned the mike to the reporter.
"Don't you credit Congress with victory?" the minister asked Mr Singh, his predecessor in the Finance Ministry before the Congress came to power at the Centre in May 2004. The veteran BJP leader didn't mince words, acceding that BJP had failed. "People vote for governance and if you stop governance, people will vote you out." he said.
"He is a gentleman", Mr Chidambaram later said, referring to Mr Singh, as he returned the mike to the reporter.
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