Chidambaram, who was considered one of the most powerful ministers in the previous UPA government, was questioned by the probe agency for over six hours.
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Government expenditure is on only in healthcare and in some other amenities, he said and added that "To keep this expenditure going on, the government has continued taxing petrol, diesel and even LPG. It is squeezing money from people in such taxes and spending some from it on public amenities.
"Thanks to Gujarat elections, GST rates on many items reduced from 28% to 18%. Thanks to Karnataka elections, Petrol/Diesel prices kept constant. So, frequent elections also bring benefits to people! (sic)," he said on Twitter.
While addressing the Youth Congress national executive meeting today, the former finance minister also took on the government over jobs and employment issues.
Special Judge OP Saini reserved the order for later in the day after hearing a battery of senior advocates appearing for Karti, son of former union minister P Chidambaram.
"There cannot be a greater lie than demonetization," Chidambaram said after presenting the party's economic policy at the Congress plenary here.
Karti Chidambaram had sought quashing of the ED's summons against him in the INX Media corruption case.
In a startling revelation, the report also mentioned that though Chidambaram made clearances above the limit, the amount on papers was shown as Rs 180 crore.
Prasad alleged that the then Congress-led UPA government "destroyed" the economy by not letting the real stressed assets get reflected in banks' books.
This comes hours after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Economic Survey for 2017-18 in Parliament.
Referring to Modi’s humble beginning as a tea-seller, it said that the Congress had still not come to terms with the “historic” mandate for an honest and hardworking ‘chaiwallah’ (tea-seller) over the corrupt and dynasts.
Chidambaram said the ED found nothing in its searches at his residence in Delhi as well as his family's residence in Chennai.
Chidamabarm pointed out that Congress’ idea of the nation is different from that of the BJP and he cited Rahul Gandhi's inaugural speech as the Congress chief to buttress his argument.
K Kathirvel, a doctor by profession and who was running the hotel in partnership with his associates, had accused Padmini, sister of Chidambaram’s wife Nalini, of grabbing the property in collusion with the bank officials.
In his latest tweet, the minister said that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's dog 'Pidi' "likes privileged people" so he must be having a liking for senior Congress leader P Chidambaram.
"Cancer is divine justice for sins' says Assam Minister Sarma. That is what switching parties does to a person," Chidambaram tweeted.
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