Ahead of the Budget presentation today, senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday slammed Opposition parties stating that they have "no views on the economy." "On the morning after the Economic Survey, if you read some newspapers, you will come to the conclusion that there is no Opposition in India And, even if there is a feeble Opposition, it has no views on the economy," the Congress leader tweeted a day after the Economic Survey was tabled in both the Houses of the Parliament.

Quoting a phrase from Charles Dickens's novel 'A Tale of Two Cities', Chidambaram said, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times."