Yashwant Sinha On Indian Economy

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  Opinion: Modi Is Recycling Champion Of India - by Yashwant Sinha

  India has some of the smartest economists in India and abroad, two of them are Nobel laureates. Is the government consulting them or even listening to them? They have offered free advice in the past and also on the present crisis facing the Indian economy. So far, such advice has fallen on deaf ears.

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  5% Growth Estimate For Indian Economy Is "Imaginary", Says Yashwant Sinha

  Former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday questioned estimation that the economy will grow at 5 per cent in 2019-20, saying the figure is "imaginary" and raised doubt about the Modi government's capability of tackling economic issues.

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  "Weird Statements": Yashwant Sinha Slams Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal

  Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Saturday questioned Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's claim that rise of Ola and Uber affected the automobile sector, asking why the sales of trucks should also decline.

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  Opinion: Anguished, But My Predictions On Economy Came True - By Yashwant Sinha

  Now that the cataclysmic events of the last few days are behind us, we could turn our attention, once again, to the state of our economy, which had receded into the background.

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  GST Revision 'Utterly Fails' To Solve Problems, Says Congress

  Keeping up the pressure on the government for the disruption caused due to the Goods and Services Tax, the Congress on Saturday welcomed the "interim relief" cleared by the GST council yesterday but stressed the government had "utterly failed" to address the structural problems of the tax regime.

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  Notes Ban 'Largest Money-Laundering Scheme Ever': Arun Shourie To NDTV

  Arun Shourie, former union minister, was categorical today in blaming the economic slowdown on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock outlawing of high-denomination notes a year ago. "It was the largest money-laundering scheme ever, conceived and implemented entirely by the government," Mr Shourie told NDTV today

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  Economy Suffering From 'Minor Cold', Says NITI Aayog's Bibek Debroy

  Bibek Debroy, who heads the new Economic Advisory Council set up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took swipes at BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha's critique of the economy and said what the former finance minister called a "serious emergency" was actually a "minor cold".

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  Arun Jaitley Takes On Yashwant Sinha As 'Job Applicant At 80'

  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his caustic comeback to BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha's criticism of the state of the economy, described the former finance minister as "a job applicant at 80". Mr Jaitley said that he did not "have the luxury as yet of being a former finance minister" or a "former finance minister who has turned a columnist".

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  'Sought Meeting With PM Modi, Still Waiting A Year Later,' Says Yashwant Sinha

  Veteran BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today said he had sought to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi a year ago, but is yet to get an appointment. After his extreme indictment of the government's role in the economic slowdown, the 79-year-old has also said, "I stand by my analysis."A

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  Prove Yashwant Sinha Wrong, Sena Dares BJP After His Critique On Economy

  The Shiv Sena challenged its ally BJP to "prove Yashwant Sinha wrong" for his stinging comments on the state of the Indian economy on Wednesday which has erupted into a major political storm, in Mumbai today.

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  After Yashwant Sinha's Attack On Economy, Son Jayant Sinha's Defence

  A day after senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's takedown of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's handling of the economy, his son and union minister Jayant Sinha has defended the government's economic policies, stating it is undertaking structural reforms that are "necessary to create a 'New India' and provide good jobs for our billion-strong workforce."

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  P Chidambaram Highlights: Yashwant Sinha Absolutely Correct

  P Chidambaram is in agreement to Yashwant Sinha about what he said on the economy. Writing in the Indian Express today, Yashwant Sinha, the country's former finance minister, indicted Arun Jaitley for making a "mess" of the economy, which, he says, owes it ruin partly to the hurried introduction of the national sales tax, the GST, and Prime Ministe...

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  Opinion: Yashwant Sinha's Attack On Economy Means Modi's Doing Great

  If a former Finance Minister, that too from within the BJP, finds fault with the state of the economy, normally, it should be treated as a matter of concern. But when one remembers that Yashwant Sinha has been a routine critic of Narendra Modi and his radical political moves to transform India, it in fact creates hope, not despair.

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  Yashwant Sinha Fails Arun Jaitley Big Time, Praises Nitin Gadkari

  After a complete takedown of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Indian Express today, senior BJP leader and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha spoke to NDTV and expanded on his view that the economy will not recover by 2019 when the next national election is due. The only exception to his targeted missiles was Nitin Gadkari, the Minister for ...

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  'I Need To Speak Up Now': Yashwant Sinha Indicts Arun Jaitley's 'Mess'

  BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha, a former finance minister, has skewered his own government's economic performance in a lacerating opinion published in the Indian Express newspaper this morning, titled "I need to speak up now". Mr Sinha, who has often been critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, grimly notes what he calls "the mess the Fi...