03-01-2007, 08:02 AM
<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> some reactions:
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Critics have lambasted as elitist the cut in import duty on pet food from 30% to 20% - a kutta-billi budget, they say. Some liken Mr Chidambaram to Marie Antoinette - if they don't have atta, let them eat pet food. Other wags say that pet food is what is served at meetings of the Congress Working Committee by Sonia Gandhi. </span></span><!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Critics have lambasted as elitist the cut in import duty on pet food from 30% to 20% - a kutta-billi budget, they say. Some liken Mr Chidambaram to Marie Antoinette - if they don't have atta, let them eat pet food. Other wags say that pet food is what is served at meetings of the Congress Working Committee by Sonia Gandhi. </span></span><!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->