New Delhi: Sushil Kumar Modi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, has turned into an economist and climate expert too: he claims that the economic slowdown is an annual feature during ‘Saawan Bhado’. We’re pretty sure that’s not an economic fact, sir.
केंद्र सरकार ने अर्थव्यवस्था में तेजी लाने के लिए 32 सूत्री राहत पैकेज की घोषणा और 10 छोटे बैंकों के विलय की पहल से लेंडिंग कैपिसिटी बढ़ाने जैसे जो चौतरफा उपाय किये हैं, उनका असर अगली तिमाही में महसूस किया जाएगा।
वैसे तो हर साल सावन-भादो में मंदी रहती है, लेकिन इस बार……. pic.twitter.com/6pu1xkqzWP
— Sushil Kumar Modi (@SushilModi) September 1, 2019
Modi is clearly intent on giving competition to another economist-cum-writer-cum-poet! Here’s Bibek Debroy’s, Chairman of Economic Advisory Council to the PM, inventive limerick on the Bombay High Court judge’s now infamous “war and peace” comment last week.
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Wonders will never cease!
We debated War and Peace.
People cocked a snook
With the wrong book,
Tolstoy wasn't the real conversation piece.
— Bibek Debroy (@bibekdebroy) September 2, 2019
Modi and Debroy are joined by a politician-turned-poet — RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav — who appears to have taken up poetry while he was MIA recently. Read is full frontal attack, free verse style, highlighting everything wrong with Bihar and the Nitish Kumar-led government.
Everyday Scams getting unearthed!
Helpless citizens losing lives to Crime!
Hospitals have become a place to suffer and lose lives due to Govt apathy!
CM shields Criminals, Mafia, Rapists & Corrupt!
But make no mistake, This is Nitish Ji's media managed Jungleraj, Kushasan!
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) September 2, 2019
Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP, wondered if JNU could stoop any lower after it asked professor emeritus Romila Thapar to share her CV. Why not, sir, it might be a bottomless pit…
JNU asking Romila Thapar to submit a cv to JNU to continue her Professor Emerita status is worse than an insult, it is a crime against the values & principles of education & respect for intellectual merit. Can JNU sink any lower? https://t.co/mb9widqiNu
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 1, 2019
Election strategist Prashant Kishor sounds angry over the ‘botched up’ National Register of Citizens list released in Assam. Wonder if Nitish Kumar appreciates his views?
A botched up NRC leaves lakhs of people as foreigners in their own country!
Such is the price people pay when political posturing & rhetoric is misunderstood as solution for complex issues related to national security without paying attention to strategic & systemic challenges.
— Prashant Kishor (@PrashantKishor) September 1, 2019
Thank you, Hasiba Amin of Congress for drawing attention to this TV news report that helps prepare us for nothing less than a nuclear attack.
If you can't convince them, confuse them. https://t.co/s9XB4yYEDs
— Hasiba | حسيبة ? (@HasibaAmin) September 2, 2019
And while we are on the subject, Union cabinet minister Dr Jitendra Singh posted a video of Pakistan minister Sheikh Rashid warning India that Pakistan has nuclear bombs. Time to build nuclear shelters, maybe?
#Pakistan Railway Minister #sheikhrashid : "Bomb na hu gaya, doodh/dahi hu gayi jo pao-adha-pao mein bhi mil rahi hai".
Tap below for VIDEO. pic.twitter.com/Oycr2Rnvcs
— Dr Jitendra Singh (@DrJitendraSingh) September 2, 2019
Aam Aadmi Party is, meanwhile, saying it in cartoons: here, it comments on its feud with the Centre over control of the municipal corporations in Delhi. But who are the rats in this story?
MCD के दांत…
'खाने' के और, 'दिखाने' के और ! pic.twitter.com/9iYYJpkYYh
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) September 2, 2019
Finally, Chairman of Khadi and Village Industries Commission Vinai Kumar Saxena was impressed with the “lightening” response of the Modi government to the slowdown in the agarbatti industry. Are we the only ones to find this statement hilarious?
Lightening response by @narendramodi Govt saves Agarbatti Industry! Met @piyushgoyal ji on 29Aug to appraise him about big job fall there after slash in import duty to10% by UPA govt.On 31Aug,Govt amended import policy to bring Agarbatti to restricted category.Big thanks. pic.twitter.com/eMQczJUTcO
— Chairman KVIC (@ChairmanKvic) September 1, 2019