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Chidambaram is the 4.8 percent growth minister: Yashwant Sinha

Chennai: Days after Narendra Modi's barb of "recounting minister" targeting Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, another senior BJP leader today hit out at him over handling of the economy and dubbing him "4.8 percent growth

He also took a dig at the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he seemed to have come "straight out of Madame Tussads wax museum (in London)" as he did not even show any emotion during the Telangana debate in Parliament.

Questioning Singh on his insistance in going ahead with the Indo-US neclear deal, Sinha, a former External Affairs Minister, sought to know "how may mega watts of nuclear power had been added as result of that effort."

Sinha also said that unlike the BJP led NDA regime, the UPA Government was not handling relations with Sri Lanka properly.

If his party under Modi was voted back to power, solutions would be found to the satisfaction of both Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian fishermen, he maintained.