Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark stating that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by him gave three times more funds to Tamil Nadu than the past regimes.In a post on X, the former Union finance minister wrote,”Hon’ble PM and Central ministers constantly say that they have given more money to TN in 2014-24 than was given in 2004-14. For example, Hon’ble PM said that his government has given for railway projects in TN seven times more money than before.”
Ask a first-year student of economics. She will tell you that the ‘economic metric’ will always be higher than in the previous years. The GDP’s size is bigger now than before. The size of the central Budget is bigger every year than in the previous year. Government’s total expenditure is bigger every year than in the previous year.”