When asked about the other comment of Modi that it was “upto the people to decide whether the Economist PM & FM have been ‘hard working' or ‘hardly working',” Chidambaram shot back, “I don't want to take the level of this debate to a Class 8 boys' debate.”
Chidambaram and Modi have been locked in a war of words over economy. The Finance Minister was critical of Modi's knowledge of economy when he said it can be written on back of postal stamp.
Asked about this comment, the Minister said, “What he (Modi) had said on that day betrayed a lack of understanding and therefore I used that phrase about writing on the back of a postage stamp.
