Congress leader Rahul Gandhi once again on Monday took a swipe at the government over the poor economic state of the country. He cited figu...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi once again on Monday took a swipe at the government over the poor economic state of the country. He cited figures collated by economist Kaushik Basu that projected India’s GDP to contract the most among 11 Asian nations, including China.
“How to completely destroy an economy and infect the maximum number of people really quickly,” Gandhi tweeted. The data table shared by Gandhi and Basu showed India, with a projected GDP contraction of 10.3% and 83 Covid-related deaths per million, at the bottom of a list that includes China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Gandhi has been a vocal critic of the Narendra Modi-led government’s economic policies and coronavirus-fighting strategy. Last week, the Congress leader mockingly referred to the grim GDP estimate as “another solid achievement” by the BJP government. “Even Pakistan and Afghanistan handled Covid better than India,” Gandhi had tweeted, along with a chart depicting IMF’s growth projections for several Asian countries.
How to completely destroy an economy and infect the maximum number of people really quickly. pic.twitter.com/5kbMpmnIpZ
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 19, 2020
On October 13, the International Monetary Fund predicted that the Indian economy would contract by 10.3% in 2020-’21, owing to the lockdowns imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic. India’s Gross Domestic...
