Expressing confidence that growth would bounce back to 7-8 percent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that the opposition should be more objective in assessing the work of the government. An acerbic Manmohan Singh also said "men of envy" disparage everything.

"I agree to Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley saying that country needs a growth of 7-8 percent to get rid of poverty. I would like to remind this house that this is precisely the intention of the UPA government," Singh said in the Rajya Sabha.