{"id":327618,"date":"2020-10-16T09:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327618"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:18:47","slug":"even-pakistan-and-afghanistan-handled-covid-better-than-india-rahul-gandhi-on-imf-projections-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/even-pakistan-and-afghanistan-handled-covid-better-than-india-rahul-gandhi-on-imf-projections-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Even Pakistan and Afghanistan handled COVID better than India&#8217;: Rahul Gandhi on IMF projections for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-blames-bjp-for-jem-chief-masood-azhars-release\/rahul-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-310274\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310274 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rahul-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul-527x420.jpg 527w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed centre over International Monetary Fund\u2019s (IMF) projection that the Indian economy is set to contract by 10.3 per cent this year, saying it was another &#8220;solid achievement&#8221; by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Referring to the IMF&#8217;s projected\u00a0 GDP growth chart for the year 2020-2021, Rahul Gandhi said, &#8220;Another solid achievement by the BJP government. Even Pakistan and Afghanistan handled Covid better than India.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/even-pakistan-and-afghanistan-handled-covid-better-than-india-rahul-gandhi-on-imf-projections-for-india\/rahul-imf-tweet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327619\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327619 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rahul-imf-tweet-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-imf-tweet-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-imf-tweet-768x694.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-imf-tweet-696x629.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-imf-tweet-465x420.jpg 465w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-imf-tweet.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a>According to IMF&#8217;s projections Pakistan and Afghanistan are expected to experience a dip of 0.40% and 5% in their GDP growth this fiscal, India\u2019s GDP is likely to contract by 10.3%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On October 14, Rahul Gandhi took a dig at BJP led central government over IMF&#8217;s growth projections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Taking to the microblogging site Rahul Gandhi shared an image of a projection graph of per capita gross domestic product, citing its source as IMF -World Economic Outlook, in which Bangladesh was shown closing in on India this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rahul described it as \u201cSolid achievement of 6 years of BJP\u2019s hate-filled cultural nationalism: Bangladesh set to overtake India.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rahul has been continuously attacking the central government over the issues related to the economy and the situation in the country due to COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed centre over International Monetary Fund\u2019s (IMF) projection that the Indian economy is set to contract by 10.3 per cent this year, saying it was another &#8220;solid achievement&#8221; by the government. Referring to the IMF&#8217;s projected\u00a0 GDP growth chart for the year 2020-2021, Rahul Gandhi said, &#8220;Another solid achievement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":310274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[4093,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327621,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327618\/revisions\/327621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}