Blatant Misrepresentations..

I have earlier documented startling departures from the truth in PM Modi's statements. Here are some more I found when reading on some other topic :

Modi said in parliament in early 2018 : “Till the time you (UPA) were in power you lied and said the NPAs were 36% but in 2014 (the year the BJP came to power) we started seeking the truth and looked at the documents. We realised that you gave wrong statistics. NPAs were at 82%,” 

In contrast, the Reserve Bank of India has said that in the year 2013-14, gross NPA (as percentage of total loan amounts) stood at 3.8% – a far cry from the 82% Modi said it is.

Modi went on to say in Parliament that total advances by banks climbed to Rs 52 lakh crore in March 2014 – as part of the UPA government’s bad debt. “This was the money of India’s poor.”

But in fact, the Rs 52 lakh crore refers to total advances by public sector banks, according to RBI data, and not NPAs.

Could even a high school student have made these wild misrepresentations ?

Is there really no else in India who can be PM ?

A friend wrote back in response to the farmer news : I do not see any one else who deserve PM position . At least man has a vision and trying hard . I think rather criticising, janta should take responsibility and help him moving country ahead. I am noticing he is trying hard but corruption within his party is hindering progress.

There are a few good members in congress but Rahul/ Sonia won’t let anybody take the position and, in fact, all these parties are so corrupt and without proper agenda, I will won’t be surprised if India end up in the same situation as th United States...

I wrote back to her : I dont take headlines to be the gospel truth. anything that takes my attention i read quite widely to appreciate the nuances behind it. everything i have read on Modi and his stewardship of Gujarat and then india, shows him to be focused only on publicity for himself. all his so-called reforms are vehicles for his publicity only.

I like Naidu in the opposition, Nitish too. And left leaders such as Prakash Karat and the Kerala Finance minister Thomas Issac. lots of congressmen sound good - Digvijay, Pilot and Scinida inlcuded. Rahul Gandhi sounds like he has tried to apply himself but i dont prefer him as pm - Nitish and Naidu have far more experience.

For e.g. Modi set up a programme in Gujarat where one day a week / fortnight / month (I forget the periodicity) he would take up particular cases in one department which had not been moved forward. he would discuss over video-link with all affected parties present. this gave good results and many stuck things moved forward.

But i noticed he did not set up the infrastructure to have ministers in his govt. do this or the secretaries in his government or the commissioners over their divisions. Given the way he has been such a self-promoting person, I am sure he would have been very offended if they had themselves used the same tools to solve problems of Gujarat. so he did not want to use these tools to move his state forward, but only for his personal wah-wahi !

Modi's image is plastered over every petrol pump in the country from the moment he launched the ujjwala programme to spend 1600 rs. distributing a LPG regulator and cylinder to rural households. do the billboards in petrol pumps help potential beneficiaries in any way ? NO - they are a publicity vehicle for modi. the programme is thus far a failure too as very few of the households have ordered a refill.