/substanceBreakling reply @amitmalviya /substance 2026-09-05
Original · Amit Malviya
Arvind Subramanian’s GDP argument has a credibility problem and it isn’t India’s GDP. It is the shifting standards, selective evidence and intellectual dishonesty being used to attack it. For days, the Congress-Left ecosystem paraded the fictional 2.6% GDP growth figure as proof…
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The attack on India's GDP number keeps changing its argument. First came the 2.6% growth claim. It was an arithmetic error; the correct figures are 10.3% nominal and 7.8% real. When that collapsed, the argument became a vague "trust deficit". The rebased base figure was published by MoSPI in February, six months before this quarter, so it could not have been invented to manufacture 7.8%. Subramanian called 7.1% growth "healthy" in 2017 as Chief Economic Adviser, and he accuses China of overstating growth on evidence he shares only "upon request". If 7.8% is wrong, produce an alternative estimate. Suspicion is not a statistical model.