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26 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
How Ravish Kumar does not understand difference between GDP and govt budget (thread)

1. Ravish quotes Piyush Goyal's statement that 1 lakh crore economic output will be generated in 4-5 years in area around Statue of Unity

2. Then he says Gujarat budget is Rs 2.25 lakh crore
Does Ravish not understand difference between GDP and govt budget?

Gujarat GDP is $230 billion

Amdavad alone has GDP of $80 billion

Piyush Goyal said they would aim for economic activity of $15 billion around Statue of Unity after 4-5 years.

This is hardly unachievable.
Then Ravish quotes union tourism minister saying in 2019 that just Rs 19.47 crore revenue was earned from the statue between Nov2018 and Jan 2019!

So Ravish is comparing:

GDP : 1 year state budget : 3 months ticket sales!

This is the Ravish Kumar that liberals worship
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Caused a storm!

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Yogi Adityanath said that there has been no "danga" in UP since he took over.

Here is how @newslaundry used a nonsensical interpretation by a "fact checker" to say that Yogi is wrong and there were thousands of riots in UP.

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Central banks pumping up the money supply to make up for loss of output due to the pandemic.

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The story begins with the 1907 panic in US stock markets.

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The British and the French borrow heavily from the US for the war.

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2 stunning changes AAP made to its constitution in January

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Does anyone know of a big scientific advance from India during that time?

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