It all started with
Do read RT @pragmatic_d What does the SGDP growth rate data of states since 2004-05 tell us? Evidently, nothing. business-standard.com/india/news/a-k…—
Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) May 02, 2012
and then
BS Editor AKB punctures Gujarat's growth claims in his column.6% growth for 7 yrs.Whereas Mah, TN & Haryana hav had double digit growth—
Vivek Sengupta (@vsengupta) May 02, 2012
The original article in Business Standard by AK Bhattacharya.
Then i had tweeted a bunch in the morning and left it at that and forgot about the same.
business-standard.com/india/news/a-k… – Basic Arithmetic & Economics gone for a toss and he writes for business standard—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
So Mr. Bhattacharya writes that Guj had 6.3% growth Annually from 2004 – 2005 to 2010-2011 in 7 years 1/n—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
2/n – 2004-05 -GSDP at current prices – 203373 Crores – 2010-2011 – 513173 Cr – Avg Growth 21.76%—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
3/n – 2004-05 – GSDP at constant prices – 203373 Crores – 2010-2011 – 365295 Cr – Avg growth rate – 11.37%—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
4/n – 2004-05 – NSDP at current prices – 172265 Crores – 2010-2011 – 440942 Cr – Avg growth rate – 22.28%—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
5/n – 2004-05 – NSDP at current prices – 172265 Crores – 2010-2011 – 309409 Cr – Avg growth rate – 11.37%—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
6/n – soeconomists, mathematicians and experts, can you please look at numbers and say how was it 6.3% growth for 7 years in guj—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
Then Soutik From BBC Came up with this Gem and a link to his BBC Article with a Headline – Is Gujarat Red Hot Economy a Myth? quoting the same Business Standard article.
Is Gujarat's red hot economy a myth? bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… #India #Gujarat—
soutik biswas (@soutik) May 02, 2012
The Original BBC Article is Below.
As usual again the crowd went delierious now with even BBC quoting it.
That is when i said enough and put out a challenge of a lakh of rupees for anyone to prove the BS & BBC Numbers or retract and modify.
I am ready to put in a lakh of rupees to anyone who can prove that Gujarat has grown by 6.3% in last 7 years as mentioned in BS—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
Any one ready for that challenge? Else a public apology by everyone who carried that BS article including Rediff, BBC and others is in order—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
Last but not the least – Accept your intellectual dishonesty of not doing your fricking homework and you call urself esteemed—
Vijay (@centerofright) May 02, 2012
After the above then the first retraction and corrected article in Business Standard comes up.
Followed by the BBC with a change in Head line – Gujarat IS a Red Hot Economy – Article below.
All i say is, you may have liking or hatred towards Narendra Modi. Try the electoral route to defeat him or try proving that the numbers he quote are wrong with facts and please don’t peddle falsehoods as facts.
Also remember that every state’s growth is a growth for India as a whole. I donot know how folks can forget this simple fact. The reason the negative campaign was to be countered as remembered that a lie repeated N number of times becomes the truth.
P.S. Business Standard carried this correction in their news paper on Page 10 4th May Edition. Just putting it on record.
Awesome expose!
RESPECT to you sir. Congratulations for all that you have achieved. More power to the social media
A job executed till perfection. Kudos.
great stuff………well done……..
Awesome! You really have ensured the mainstream media (should they really be called so, just because they have power to reach more people due to their financial muscle?) must not try to play with facts. But, on TV news channels they massage truth more easily, and escape. Since its daily routine, we can’t keep tab on all of them.
I hope at least the print media will think twice in future before indulging in such practices. Very well done. Thank you.
Salute to @centerright (vijay) grt work
Accept my Pranam Guruwar..
You have demonstrated that any Prudent Indian can take on mighty ones and force them to concede with sheer power of ‘logic and Truth’. More power to you.
BTW, Loved this.” All i say is, you may have liking or hatred towards Narendra Modi. Try the electoral route to defeat him or try proving that the numbers he quote are wrong with facts and please don’t peddle falsehoods as facts.”
Guruwar, do I have your permission to reproduce this post with link at my blogs on WP and Rediff?
Regards,
PI.
Please go ahead
Executed with precision. Must say that you are a doing a very commendable job of countering the falsehoods being spread by mainstream paid media
This is great expose!AK Bhattacharya must be naked now!
Great Job Sir – U r truly called “WAREHOUSE of INFORMATION”
Congratulations again
Already Posted the link on FB (without ur permission, hope u dont mind)
no issue
well done but having read AKB for decade plus, no surpirse to me! He sounds soberly (unlike, say, Malvika Singh) but is no less a Con’s reliable media bhompu than others!
We need more and more ppl like you to uncover the false propaganda going against Gujarat and NAMO
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