𝗧𝗵𝗲 ₹𝟴𝟲 𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗵 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 ₹𝟴𝟬 𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗵 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.
The claim that last year’s GDP was “reduced” from ₹86 lakh crore to ₹80 lakh crore now to inflate a 7.8% growth rate is simply wrong.
The new GDP series and the re-estimated historical numbers were announced in February 2026 itself. The ₹80 lakh crore number was therefore publicly available months before the 7.8% Q1 growth number was released.
And here is the basic conceptual point: ₹86 lakh crore and ₹80 lakh crore are estimates of the same past economic activity under two different statistical methodologies.
The economy did not go back in time and shrink. The measuring system changed.
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ₹𝟴𝟬 𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗵 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟳.𝟴% 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵.
Subhash Chandra Garg’s latest attack on the new GDP series deserves a refresher.
On 5 March 2026, barely a week after the new GDP series was released, Garg published a piece in The Quint examining the very revision he now describes as “fiddled”.
And his verdict then was remarkably clear.
As the highlighted excerpt shows, Garg compared the old and new series on precisely the issue he is now using to attack the methodology. He wrote that the new series is:
“much more representative of current production and consumption in the country”
and
“can, therefore, be taken as more accurate.”
More accurate than the old series.
He further described the downward revision in nominal GDP as “very bad news, which the new GDP series has honestly communicated.”
That was Garg’s assessment in March.
Today, he has completely inverted that assessment.
The old series’ higher figure has suddenly become his benchmark. The new series’ lower figure, the same revision he previously acknowledged as more representative and more accurate, has now become evidence of alleged manipulation.
The numbers did not change. Garg’s narrative did.
This is not a disagreement over methodology. It is an extraordinary reversal of position on the very same GDP revision within months.
When the numbers supported his argument, the new series was “more accurate” and had “honestly communicated” bad news.
When the same numbers no longer serve his narrative, the methodology is suddenly “fiddled”.
This is less economic analysis and more motivated reasoning. We now know why he was likely ousted as Finance Secretary.
7.8% GDP growth. India continues to surprise on the upside!
- Investment: +11.9%
- Manufacturing: +9.2%
- Services: +10%
And this despite oil shocks and global uncertainty. Credit where it is due: PM Modi’s focus on reforms, infrastructure, investment and fiscal stability is delivering. The India growth story remains firmly on track. I only hope the rains do not play spoilsport in the future.
I studied in RSS-run Vidya Bharati schools from nursery to Class 8. My father sat in the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (the highest decision-making body of the RSS). Our house had the Ram Charit Manas, the Geeta, all four Vedas, and shelves of RSS literature. The school library had more.
In all those years I never once heard the word Manusmriti.
Not because it was defended. Because it was irrelevant.
Rahul Gandhi grew up on comics (Not Chach Chaudhary but the one imported from the UK). I would be surprised if he had read the Bible, growing up. So when someone read him selective shlokas from a Manusmriti over a depressing weekend, he thought he had cracked open the secret operating manual of a billion Hindus. He found a nothing burger.
Mark this post. Count how many times he says "Manusmriti" during the 2029 campaign. My prediction: zero. By then he will have worked out that it matters to no one. But by then it will be too late. The Left will have burned another cycle on a low IQ leader who cannot tell an exposé from a nothing burger.
So let me put it to the only people who would actually know.
If you went to a Vidya Bharati school: did you ever read Manusmriti? Was it assigned, mentioned, or on any shelf?
And if not, then how old were you when you first heard the name, and who brought it up? In what context?
Answer honestly, even if it cuts against my argument. Let's help a low IQ opposition because whether you like him or not, a democracy needs robust opposition.
Where do these people come from? How many Durga Pujas have you seen? Visit any Bangal household where Puja is held. It's always fish and meat in bhog
Even Maa is sent off with jora ilish in Dashami.
Forget households, visit Belur Math amd see what they offer as bhog
@MeghUpdates I do not really understand politics but what I never understand is that why there isn't widespread condemnation & protest against this kind of antics with national flag. When there is so so many patriotic army persons in Punjab? Why dont they all come out protest & discredit them
@SudhanidhiB@an1sh123 Shakti or shakto debi puja always have fish or mach bhog. Kaali pujo durga pujo always have amish bhog in saptami or nabami or any other day. We in our family have 100 year old Jagadhatri Pujo with various mach or fish bhog. Almost all kali temple also give mach bhog. Stop lying
India is governed by its Constitution, not the Manusmriti. The Constitution of India was framed by the Constituent Assembly under the chairmanship of Babasaheb Dr B. R. Ambedkar and is the supreme law of our Republic.
Yet Rahul Gandhi repeatedly misquotes and selectively invokes the Manusmriti to peddle an anti-Hindu narrative.
What makes this even more ironic is that he seems not to know what Mahatma Gandhi and his own great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru actually said about Manu and the Manusmriti.
On 4 May 1928, Gandhi wrote to P. T. Pillay:
“I do not regard Manusmriti as an evil. It contains much that is admirable, but in its present form it undoubtedly contains many things that are bad and these appear to be interpolations. Whilst a reformer would therefore treasure all excellent things in that ancient code, he would expurgate all that is injurious or of doubtful value.”
Reference: M. K. Gandhi, Letter to P. T. Pillay, 4 May 1928, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 36, Letter No. 348, p. 294.
Then, on 1 May 1955, Nehru said at a public meeting in New Delhi:
“There is no doubt about it that Manu and Yagnavalkya were great souls and we must read what they have written with respect and think about it.”
He immediately added that the India of their time was entirely different and that he could not accept the social organisation of two thousand years ago as necessarily appropriate for the present.
Reference: Jawaharlal Nehru, Peaceful Transition to Socialism, speech at a public meeting on May Day, New Delhi, 1 May 1955, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, Vol. 28, pp. 60–70.
And four days later, during the Lok Sabha debate on the Hindu Marriage Bill, Nehru said:
“He quoted, he referred to Manu and Yagnyavalkya, very great men in our history, who have shaped India’s destiny. We admire them. They are among the heroes of our history.”
Nehru then made his position clear: Manu and Yagnyavalkya could not simply be invoked as “a witness as to what should be done in the present conditions of India,” because society had changed dramatically.
Reference: Jawaharlal Nehru, The Hindu Marriage Bill, speech during the third reading in the Lok Sabha, 5 May 1955, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, Vol. 28, pp. 468–478; Lok Sabha Debates, Vol. IV, Part II, 22 April–7 May 1955, cols. 7954–7968.
The lesson is simple.
Respecting civilisational inheritance does not mean treating every ancient prescription as immutable law. Hindu civilisation has survived precisely because it has the intellectual and spiritual capacity to debate, reform and evolve from within.
The least Rahul Gandhi can do is read and learn from what even his own family members have said, rather than remain a prisoner of the Dimaagi Naxals who seem determined to feed him a caricature of Hinduism.
Hinduism has reformed from within for millennia and it will continue to do so.
But selective quotation and deliberate misrepresentation are not reform. They are propaganda.
@paldebu78@ANI Please explain the meaning of Jan Gan Mana Adhunayak. I dont actually know & confused . Who is" Bharat Bhagya Bidhata". Whose "jayagatha". Its not jayagatha of Bharat but Tobo jayagatha refers again to bharat's Bhagya Vidhata. Can you please explain to whom it refers.
@SudhanidhiB Yes. Completely agree. Also do some work first & then talk. She is talking non stop & suggesting ideas that are not practical at all. Implement something successfully & then people will listen .
This video is not from the Independence Day programme. The video is from the inauguration of my office in Barrackpore, which took place on 6th July, 2026 on the birth anniversary of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Ji.
The parties and some individuals spreading such fake narrative and propaganda should have verified the facts before circulating it and should have corrected their mistake. It is such disgraceful action, highly condemnable.
@SupriyaShrinate Ji, Is this the level of research of your team? Because of these kinds of activities, the people of our country will keep your party in opposition for a long time.
I am going to take legal action against the parties and persons for deliberately spreading propaganda against me.
#FactCheck
Since this morning, this is the fifth time Abhijeet Dipke has pretended to cry.
The only thing he's upset about is that, in the heat of the moment, he announced that he was going on a hunger strike, but now he's starving.
Junaid bhai's bread pakoras and biryani were his favorites, which Dipke used to eat to his heart's content every single day.
কলেজ স্কোয়ারের দুর্গাপুজোর সভাপতি আমি হচ্ছি না। শুধু কলেজ স্কোয়ার নয়, রাজ্যের কোনও দুর্গাপুজোর সভাপতি আমি হব না, কিংবা কোনও পুজোর পরিচালনার দায়িত্ব নেব না।
একজন বিধায়ক বা মন্ত্রী নিজের এলাকার কোনও পুজো কমিটির সভাপতি হতে পারেন—সেটা তাঁদের নিজস্ব সিদ্ধান্ত। কিন্তু তার অর্থ এই নয় যে, রাস্তায় বেরিয়ে একের পর এক পুজোর দায়িত্ব রাজনৈতিক ব্যক্তি, বিধায়ক, সাংসদ বা রাজনৈতিক দলের নেতারা নিজেদের হাতে তুলে নেবেন।
দুর্গাপুজো সর্বজনের, কোনও রাজনৈতিক দলের নয়।
পুজো কমিটিগুলির স্বাধীনতা, স্বতন্ত্রতা এবং সর্বজনীন চরিত্র অক্ষুণ্ণ থাকুক—এই বিশ্বাস থেকেই আমাদের এই সিদ্ধান্ত। উৎসবের আনন্দ মানুষের হাতে থাকুক, রাজনীতির দখলে নয়।
@RahulGandhi Why no outrage when innocents hindus were murdered and lynched in Bangladesh? Why no words when 100s of innocent Afghanistani children were killed in Pakistan strike? You loser think that you will get votes from hindus.. Never.. A true hindu will never vote you loser.