India, April 3 -- Former Infosys CFO and Chairman of Aarin Capital, Mohandas Pai, on Wednesday slammed the Kerala Congress for ridiculing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2015 remark about India being an $8 trillion economy.

Responding to the party's social media jibe, Pai posted, "Idiotic comment again showing empty heads. Modi spoke about GDP in PPP which is the correct measure. It was ~8 Tr$ then and today ~17.5Tr $. Nominal is at current prices. Nominal we are ~4Tr$ today. The Masters of fake narratives showing off how fake they are. Keep going."

His remarks came after the Kerala Congress tweeted: "Modi told Mark Zuckerberg in 2015, that India is a 8 Trillion Dollar Economy, and he wanted to take it to 20 trillion. A wise man once sai...