We are what we are!!
There are headlines screaming " Indian economy is in ICU", "India back to Hindu rate of growth" etc.All this scare mongering is to catch your eyes and blame Modi for the economy in dire straits.
When official CSO numbers were put out at 8%, some economists continued to say it is only 5.5% as it is overstated by 2.5% with their own back of the envelope calculations. In the past, when UPA was in Govt. its own FM doubted CSO methodology when GDP was down at 4.3% and now we are quoting and looking at him to offer solutions to today's GDP problem. Are we all suffering from dementia or selective amnesia?
When former CEA doubts GDP calculations , we tend to denounce CSO nos. but when Govt in power says NSS methodology for estimating consumer spending is not robust, we mock at the Govt. Why such double standards?
We collectively want to be "doubting Thomases" always and keep criticizing our own duly elected Govt. making fun of it.On top of it, we say it is intolerant when we make fun of it.
Without an iota of evidence, a group of bankrupt and the corrupt wanted to derail Rafale jet purchase and filed a petition in SC .Even after it has been thrown out by SC and the politician who called PM Chor, being censured by SC,we still write cock and bull stories about the deal by quoting few lines of one of the judges out of context. We are not bothered about IAF not receiving jets in time and thereby the nation's defence getting compromised. For a minute we do not want to hold previous UPA govt. for dithering in this crucial defence purchase and we have not questioned them for dragging on this purchase .
We all know that the previous UPA govts. went on and on in postponing GST implementation despite an Economist PM at the helm, who knew GST is good for India.Finally Modi had to bite the bullet in 2017 and when the Govt and GST council faced a dilemma of half baked GST or no GST, everybody knew that it would be half baked GST .State GST council had Congress ruled states also and they were also party to this from day one of GST implementation. I am not for a minute justifying the GST goofups and bloomers and the myriad forms and reports our tax bureaucracy wants us to file. But did we question UPA as to why it kept on dragging its feet endlessly on GST implementation.
I think we are degenerating into a cynical nation!
There are headlines screaming " Indian economy is in ICU", "India back to Hindu rate of growth" etc.All this scare mongering is to catch your eyes and blame Modi for the economy in dire straits.
When official CSO numbers were put out at 8%, some economists continued to say it is only 5.5% as it is overstated by 2.5% with their own back of the envelope calculations. In the past, when UPA was in Govt. its own FM doubted CSO methodology when GDP was down at 4.3% and now we are quoting and looking at him to offer solutions to today's GDP problem. Are we all suffering from dementia or selective amnesia?
When former CEA doubts GDP calculations , we tend to denounce CSO nos. but when Govt in power says NSS methodology for estimating consumer spending is not robust, we mock at the Govt. Why such double standards?
We collectively want to be "doubting Thomases" always and keep criticizing our own duly elected Govt. making fun of it.On top of it, we say it is intolerant when we make fun of it.
Without an iota of evidence, a group of bankrupt and the corrupt wanted to derail Rafale jet purchase and filed a petition in SC .Even after it has been thrown out by SC and the politician who called PM Chor, being censured by SC,we still write cock and bull stories about the deal by quoting few lines of one of the judges out of context. We are not bothered about IAF not receiving jets in time and thereby the nation's defence getting compromised. For a minute we do not want to hold previous UPA govt. for dithering in this crucial defence purchase and we have not questioned them for dragging on this purchase .
We all know that the previous UPA govts. went on and on in postponing GST implementation despite an Economist PM at the helm, who knew GST is good for India.Finally Modi had to bite the bullet in 2017 and when the Govt and GST council faced a dilemma of half baked GST or no GST, everybody knew that it would be half baked GST .State GST council had Congress ruled states also and they were also party to this from day one of GST implementation. I am not for a minute justifying the GST goofups and bloomers and the myriad forms and reports our tax bureaucracy wants us to file. But did we question UPA as to why it kept on dragging its feet endlessly on GST implementation.
I think we are degenerating into a cynical nation!
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