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Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a Union minister, mocked Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday, a day after the Pakistani PM claimed that his country's economic situation is better than India's. Indian politicians reacted angrily to the remark, with Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Information Technology, being one of them.

Imran Khan allegedly claimed that, despite extraordinary obstacles, Pakistan's economic situation was better than that of many other countries in the area, particularly India, during the opening ceremony of the International Chambers Summit 2022.

Prime Minister Imran Khan said, "Pakistan is still one of the cheapest countries...they (opposition) call us incompetent but the fact is that our government has saved the nation from all crises."

Prime Minister Khan stated, that Pakistani oil prices are lower than those in other countries at a time when his administration is drafting a financial law in Parliament as part of an IMF condition. The bill clears the way for $1 billion in aid to Pakistan.

Chandrasekhar, in an apparent response to Imran Khan's claim, tweeted,  "Yes bcoz aapke paas Sidhu hain, aur hamare paas sirf fastest growng economy, sabze jyaada unicorn aur FDI hai (Yes because you have Sidhu (Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu), but we have fastest-growing economy (India), most unicorn companies and highest Foreign Direct Investment."

"You have Sidhu," the minister joked, in an oblique allusion to Imran Khan's search for Navjoy Sidhu during the Kartarpur Corridor's inauguration in 2019, when he remarked, "Where is our Sidhu?"

"In order to talk up its economic stocks, Imran Khan refers to Pakistan as one of the cheapest countries in the world. Of course, you are when - beg from Saudi, auction your land & resources to China & sell donkeys in order to survive," Imran Khan's claim drew a response from Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi, who tweeted.