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Nitin Pai
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We have 300 million people in our country who have no money. Our per capita income is $2000 per annum.

Economic growth for us is a moral imperative. It is unconscionable to forget this even for a moment.
Let me translate that for you, an average Indian makes only around Rs 400 *per day*.

The minimum wage (McDonald’s) in Sweden is around Rs 1000 *per hour*
So if we don’t talk about economic growth and raising incomes, who’s going to do it?
Economic growth as a moral imperative. By @srajagopalan livemint.com/opinion/column…
@srajagopalan My recent column on why high economic growth is a moral imperative theprint.in/opinion/slow-e…
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Almost all political parties are Left. They might describe themselves otherwise, but their convictions and actions are always Left. That’s perhaps why the Communist Parties have wiped out. Because every party is Left, without the cumbersome ideological canon.
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It is not that India was never an independent country. The point is that she once lost the independence she had. Will she lost it a second time? [If] parties place creed above country, our independence will be put in jeopardy a second time & probably be lost forever - Ambedkar
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