Just heard @JaiveerShergill on an LSE Students Union panel discussion on the informal sector and the pandemic. He and @priyankac19 had some very interesting observations to make, @NalinSKohli was his usual prickly defend-BJP-at-all-costs self. A few points:
@JaiveerShergill made the useful point that even in the so called formal sector the vast majority of workers DO NOT enjoy the most important things of being in the formal sector, a contract, employment benefits, and a pension/providend fund.
@NalinSKohli beat the drum for JAM - janDhan, aadhaar and Mobile, with which the #Modi Govt, he claimed, helped 420 million beneficiaries (fact check, anyone?) He was challenged about how demonetisation had destroyed the MSME and informal sectors.
His defence of Demonetisation was the most bizarre I've heard yet. If it was such a disaster, as people claimed, how come Mr Modi won UP in 2017, a year after the disaster? There that election win proved it , acc to him.
@Jaiveershergill pricked that bubble when he said Mr. Kohli could have it both ways, one, claim that an election win vindicates past mistakes and then say what did they do in 70 years. Well, they won all those elections then didnt they.
Typo correction. Mr Kohl;i could NOT have it both ways
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