<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should resign owning responsibility for the current state of economic affairs, former finance minister P Chidambaram said Wednesday.</p>.<p>"She should resign," Chidambaram said when asked what would be his one suggestion to Nirmala to put the economy back on track.</p>.<p>Chidambaram was speaking at the book launch function here.</p>.<p>Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking on the same event, said that this government has failed to acknowledge that there is such a word called "slowdown".</p>.<p>"If you cannot recognise the problems you face, you are not likely to find credible answers to take corrective action," Singh said.</p>.<p>He also drew attention to rising revenue-expenditure gap of the centre and states, which has exceeded 9% of late.</p>
<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should resign owning responsibility for the current state of economic affairs, former finance minister P Chidambaram said Wednesday.</p>.<p>"She should resign," Chidambaram said when asked what would be his one suggestion to Nirmala to put the economy back on track.</p>.<p>Chidambaram was speaking at the book launch function here.</p>.<p>Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking on the same event, said that this government has failed to acknowledge that there is such a word called "slowdown".</p>.<p>"If you cannot recognise the problems you face, you are not likely to find credible answers to take corrective action," Singh said.</p>.<p>He also drew attention to rising revenue-expenditure gap of the centre and states, which has exceeded 9% of late.</p>
