Chidambaram hits out at critics, says have pulled back economy

Hitting out at critics of UPA's management of economy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the government has "pulled back" the economy from a difficult situation and put it back on a high growth path.       Rejecting description of his interim Budget as populist, he said over the last couple of years the government was trying to do a "rescue act" like every other government in the world was doing.       "To put it plainl...