Chidambaram's arrest, Kashmir issues being used to 'hide'

Lashing out at the NDA government over the GDP growth, the DMK on Wednesday alleged issues like the arrest of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram and Kashmir were being used by it to hide the 'alarming' economic slowdown.

The economic growth slumped to 5 per cent in the three months ended June and it is alarming. Such a trend of a pretty weak GDP growth was unseen in the last 27 years, DMK president M K Stalin said.

A day after Chidambaram took a dig at the government over the slump in GDP, Stalin claimed despite such a scenario, news related to it could not be seen in print or visual media, adding "a plan is on to hide it (the economic scenario)."
On Tuesday, after he stepped out of a Delhi courtroom, Chidambaram, when asked what he had to say about his CBI custody, quipped, "Five per cent. Do you know what is five per cent."
On the foreign tour of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami alongwith some of his cabinet colleagues, Stalin took potshots at the government saying, "the Cabinet has changed into a touring Cabinet."
On US firms committing over Rs 2,700 crore investments during Palaniswami's ongoing visit, he said "these are in the stage of announcements alone and you should ponder if these (proposed projects) could be expeditiously implemented."