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‘SET ASIDE VENDETTA POLITICS, FIX ECONOMY’ “THE LAST QUARTER’S GDP GROWTH RATE OF 5% SIGNALS THAT WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A PROLONGED SLOWDOWN,” FORMER PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH SAID IN A VIDEO STATEMENT New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has rarely made public interventions in the last few years since the BJP came to power but whenever he has spoken, it has weighed heavily for the saffron party to ignore or paper over. From economic issues to demonetisation or agrarian distress, Manmohan Singh has now become one of the strongest voices of the Opposition against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On Sunday, Singh came down heavily on the BJP-led government, blaming their ‘all-round
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All-round mismanagement by the Modi government has resulted in this slowdown. India cannot afford to continue down this path Manmohan Singh, Former PM mismanagement’ for the economic slowdown. He called the state of economy deeply worrying and claimed it had the potential to grow at a much faster rate.
“The state of the economy today is deeply worrying. The last quarter’s GDP growth rate of 5% signals that we are in the midst of a prolonged slowdown. India has the potential to grow at a much faster,” Singh said. “Our youth, farmers and farmworkers, entrepreneurs and the marginalised sections deserve better. India cannot afford to continue down this path. Therefore, I urge the government to put aside vendetta politics, and reach out to all sane voices and thinking minds, to steer our economy out of this man-made crisis,” he added.
ON UNEMPLOYMENT
ON AGRI CRISIS
DEMONETISATION & GST
ON LAW & ORDER
Centre’s policies are resulting in massive jobless growth. Over 3.5 lakh jobs have been lost in the auto sector alone. There will similarly be large scale job losses in informal sector
Our farmers, entrepreneurs and the marginalised sections deserve better. India cannot afford to continue down this path. Government must steer our economy out of this man-made crisis
Demonetisation is organised loot. When undertaking the endeavour of one nation one tax if PM Modi had taken inspiration from the resolve of the great Sardar Patel, the outcome would be different
Modi’s failure to speak up earlier had allowed people to think that they could get away without stern action. I do feel that those in authority must speak up in time (so as) to give a lead to their followers
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressing a press conference in Chennai on Sunday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Bank mergers won’t lead to job loss: Sitharaman Chennai: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday calmed fear of job loss following the merging of public sector banks, saying it would not lead to any. “I have very clearly underlined the fact that there shall not be one employee removed, not at all,” she told reporters in Chennai two days after announcing that 27 state-run banks will be merged to form 12 strong banks. It had triggered ap-
prehension, with the All-India Bank Employees’ Union saying the amalgamation would lead to closure of banks besides job losses. Questions of pink slip after the amalgamation are absolutely “ill-informed,” Sitharaman told reporters while on a visit to Chennai. On Friday, Sitharaman unveiled a mega plan to merge weak public sector banks with the strong ones as Turn to P4
Another setback: GST collections When Rahul speaks, Pakistan drop below `1 lakh crore in Aug cheers: Shah jabs Congress New Delhi: GST collection for August has dropped below Rs 1 lakh crore to Rs 98,202 crore — a fall from Rs 1,02,083 crore in July. Out of the total collection, CGST stood at Rs 17,733 crore, SGST collected was Rs 24,239 crore, IGST saw Rs 48,958 crore in total including Rs 24,818 crore collected on imports while Cess collection was Rs 7,273 crore including Rs 841 crore collected on imports, according to government data. The August collection, however, was 4.5 per cent up from Rs 93,960 crore collected in GST in August 2018. Nonetheless, it is
the second fall in the current financial year after the collection went down in June this year to Rs 99,939 crore. Moreover, the total number of GSTR 3B
Returns filed for July up to 31 August 2019 was 75.80 lakhs while the total revenue earned by central and state governments after regular settlement
in the month of August 2019 was Rs 40,898 crores for CGST and Rs 40,862 crore for the SGST, ANI tweeted. The fall in the collection comes amid economic slowdown as the country posted its weakest growth in over six years at 5 per cent in the June quarter even as it slowed for the sixth straight quarter. The average monthly GST collection was estimated to be Rs 1.14 lakh crore, as per FY20 budget estimates, by the centre and state companies according to 14 per cent notional GST revenue growth for states that the central Turn to P4
Silvassa: Attacking the Congress, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that it should be “ashamed” that its leader Rahul Gandhi’s statement was used by Pakistan in its petition to the UN on Kashmir. At a public meeting, Shah, also the BJP president, said people have supported the Narendra Modi government’s move to nullify Article 370 but some, he added in a swipe at Gandhi, are still opposing it. “The Congress opposed the move to remove Article 370. Whatever statements Rahul Gandhi make are lauded
Home Minister Amit Shah feeds child during the inauguration and foundation stone laying ceremony of several projects in Silvassa.
in Pakistan. Pakistan has included his comments in its plea. Congress leaders should be ashamed that these statements are being used
against India,” he said. Gandhi had in a statement spoken about reports of violence and “people dying” in Kashmir fol-
After Kalyan era, Gehlot welcomes Kal Raj-asthan’s new Guv Aditi Nagar Jaipur/New Delhi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday congratulated newly appointed Governor Kalraj Mishra. Former Union minister Mishra, who was recently appointed the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, has been shifted to Rajasthan. 78-year-old Mishra will succeed former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, who completed his five-year
tenure as the Governor of Rajasthan. “I thank Kalyan Singh ji, our outgoing Governor, heartily. Wish him good health and happiness in the years to come. Congratulations to Kalraj Mishra for being appointed Governor of Rajasthan. My best wishes to him,” Gehlot said in a tweet. Former chief minister Vasundhara Raje also congratulated Mishra. “Heartily congratulations and best wishes to Kalraj Mishra for being appointed
Congratulations to Sh. Kalraj Mishra for being appointed Governor of #Rajasthan. My best wishes to him... I thank Kalyan Singh ji, our outgoing Governor, heartily. Wish him good health and happiness in the years to come. #Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot
GOODBYE HIS EXCELLENCY! Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot greets outgoing Governor Kalyan Singh at Raj Bhavan on Sunday. (Right) The newly-appointed governor of Rajasthan Kalraj Mishra visits Vindhyavasini temple in Mirzapur on Sunday.
as Governor of the state. I believe that the state will touch
the new heights under his guidance,” she said in a tweet.
OLD BONHOMIE Three-decade-old relation will be re-
vived when Kalraj Mishra will take oath as the next Gov-
ernor of Rajasthan. The two political stalwarts have relations above the party lines and both have honoured the understanding for nearly thirty years. The “friendship” goes back to the time when Kalraj was a powerful face in the Uttar Pradesh BJP and at that time, Gehlot was the Congress Incharge of Uttar Pradesh. The connection between Kalraj Mishra and Rajasthan is old. As incharge Turn to P4
lowing the removal of provisions of Article 370, which gave Jammu and Kashmir special status, and Pakistan had mentioned it in its petition against India. Shah said not a single bullet or teargas shell has been fired in Kashmir nor anybody killed ever since the Centre revoked sections of Article 370. “Today, questions are being raised about the law and order of Kashmir. I would like to tell the entire country and the world that Kashmir is entirely peaceful. Ever since the removal of Article 370, not a single bullet or teargas shell Turn to P4
INSIDE ‘NOT STATELESS IF NOT IN NRC’ India on Sunday said people excluded from the NRC in Assam have not become “Stateless” and will enjoy all rights as before till they exhaust all remedies available under the law. 05 ‘ENSURE NO ONE LEFT STATELESS’ Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, voiced his concern over statelessness by NRC exclusion, in a statement issued Sunday in Geneva. 08