This is the full text of Finance Minister P Chidambaram's speech on economy to Lok Sabha.
We have to ensure that mergers do not substantially reduce competition and consumer choice, says Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
The attacks by the Communist Party of India-Maoist, whether opportunistic or pre-planned, are part of their strategy of an 'armed liberation struggle' and in furtherance of their goal of 'seizure of political power through a protracted people's war', says Home Minister P Chidambaram.
There was an improvement in the eighties to an average of 5.6 per cent per annum. When even moderate growth became unsustainable, and there was a threat of collapse, India made a decisive shift in 1991.