BJP should face polls on loan waiver issue: Chidambaram

Hitting back at the Opposition for its charges that the farm loan waiver was a fraudulent propaganda and the budget was communal, the government on on Monday dared BJP to face the electorate on those planks and win.

Rejecting BJP leader Arun Shourie's allegations during the budget debate, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said in his reply in the Rajya Sabha that the government would provide resources to flagship programmes like loan waiver and National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

He said if what Shourie was saying was correct, then he should take the campaign against loan waiver and NREGA to constituencies and see if he could win.