'We Don't Want Your Aid', India Tells UK; 'No Aid Even If India Comes Begging', Retorts British MP

IBTimes Monday 6th February, 2012

India's finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had said that his country doesn't require British aid, describing it as peanuts. The remark sparked a heated controversy in the UK. "We do not require the aid," Mukherjee said, during question time in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian parliament, according to the official transcript. "It is a pean...

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