An allergic reaction

During his reply over the debate on the issue of price rise in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee lost his cool. When Ram Chandra Dome, a doctor-turned-parliamentarian, tried to interrupt Mukherjee and asked about the growing number of below-poverty-line (BPL) families, Mukherjee shot back, “Dr Dome, these issues (of economics) are not dealt with in your medical science. Please sit down.”