‘Patient’dying but PM says operation successful: AAP

The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that the economy was on a firm footing and likened him to a surgeon who claims that the operation has been successful even when the patient is on the verge of death.

AAP leader Manish Sisodia claimed the prime minister presented the “facts wrongly” when he spoke on the GDP slowdown on Wednesday, reports PTI.

He was referring to the prime minister’s address to a gathering of Company Secretaries where he had said that his government will continue reforms and not hesitate to take decisions to reverse the GDP slowdown witnessed in the last two quarters.

Taking a jibe at Modi, Sisodia said, “If I summarise the prime minister’s speech...you are patting yourself on the back like a doctor who says the operation has been successful but the patient is dying.”

The prime minister tried to present a picture of the economy before the nation which was more imaginary than factual, he told reporters here.

Sisodia, who is also the finance minister of Delhi, said contrary to the prime minister’s claim, the GDP fell from 9.1 per cent to 5.7 per cent in the last six quarters.

Modi had on Wednesday slammed his critics, saying they were seeing slowdown in the last two quarters but ignoring the fact that the BJP government had brought down inflation from 10 per cent under the UPA dispensation to 2.5 per cent, shrunk Current Account Deficit to near 1 per cent from 4 per cent, and brought down fiscal deficit to 3.5 per cent from 4.5 per cent.