Fact Check: BJP overlooks India's negative GDP estimates for 2020, falsely claims 8% growth
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) posted a graphic on India's gross domestic product estimates for 2020 that was released on 26 January by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, this graphic falsely shows India growing at 8 per cent.
By Newsmeter Network Published on 30 Jan 2021 8:28 AM GMT
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) posted a graphic on India's gross domestic product estimates for 2020 that was released on 26 January by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, this graphic falsely shows India growing at 8 per cent.
Below is a screenshot of the graphic with the wrong information.
Fact Check:
NewsMeter checked the official site of the IMF and found that India's growth is not a positive 8 per cent but a negative 8 per cent.
On 28 January, the BJP deleted this graphic from its social media pages and updated it with the correct number - which is -8%.
This is not the first time that the BJP has made such an error. Last August, it had tweeted that India's 1.9 per cent growth estimate for 2020 is the highest economic growth among many other countries amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. NewsMeter debunked this false news too and reported that the information was old data. Click here to read the same.
It is clear that BJP's tweet contains an error and that India's growth estimate is negative 8 per cent.
