‘Falling GDP, rising unemployment’: Rahul Gandhi attacks govt.

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday criticised the Union government over the recent economic indicators that showed the countrys GDP growth to have slowed.

Falling #GDP. Rising #unemployment. Every other issue is manufactured to distract us from this fundamental failure, said Gandhi, in a post on Twitter that linked to a news article on Wednesdays announcement of GDP figures.

Data from the governments central statistics office showed an unexpected slump in the Gross Domestic Product growth that slowed to its lowest in more than two years in the March quarter. That meant India was no longer the worlds fastest growing major economy.

The annual economic growth at 6.1% in the January-March period was lower than the lowest analyst estimate of 6.5% in a Reuters poll. It was also lower than Chinas growth of 6.9% for the first three months of 2017. Rahul Gandhis Congress, the arch-rival to Prime Minister Narendra Modis Bharatiya Janata Party has routinely accused the government of trying to ignore serious issues.