They have no will to fight, they have actually conceded defeat,” she added.
Chidambaram has chosen not to contest the Lok Sabha polls and Congress has now nominated his son Karti from his constituency of Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu.
Sitharaman said that BJP had formed a grand alliance in Tamil Nadu which had scared many leaders in other parties.
Those who criticised NDA's ‘India Shining' campaign used to say that a dream team of economists—Dr Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and P Chidamabaram—will bring in a beautiful, inclusive India, Sitharaman said before charging that this very dream team had left the economy in doldrums.