Following Finance Minister P Chidambaram's decision not to contest the upcoming election, the BJP declared that he was 'running away' and it only showed that the Congress did not have the will to contest.
"Chidambaram is not even contesting, he is running away from contesting. He is not even willing to give answers," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters today.
"This reflects mindset of Congress. They are running away. They don't have the will to fight. They have accepted defeat," she said.
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The Congress declared yesterday that Chidambaram's son, Karti, would be contesting in his place from the Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency. Chidambaram's previous victory, by over 3,300 votes in 2009, had been challenged in court.
The BJP has claimed that the Finance Minister's decision to not contest was a very symbolic one since he was the Finance Minister for most of the UPA's ten years of governance.
"The fact is that all the questions of development that Narendra Modi are running on are not going to be answered," Sitharaman said.
The BJP spokesperson also alleged that Chidambaram has made Shining India into Gloom India, claiming that the UPA government's policies had slowed down economic growth.
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