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NEW DELHI: Union agriculture minister Shivraj Chouhan on Saturday countered US President Donald Trump\u2019s description of India as a \u201cdead economy,\u201d saying the latest GDP figures showed that “India is a long live economy” on the path to becoming developed and self-reliant. According to government data released on Friday, the country’s economy grew by 7.8 per cent in April\u2013June, the highest in five quarters, before the US imposed tariffs.<\/p>\n
‘Not Dead, Long Live Economy’: Shivraj Chouhan Hits Back At Trump’s Jibe At India, Cites GDP Data<\/p>\n
The growth in the first quarter of the current financial year was mainly supported by the farm sector. Union agriculture minister Shivraj Chouhan said, “Those who call it a \u2018dead economy\u2019 should now understand that India is a \u2018long live economy\u2019, which is on the path to realising the dream of a developed and fully self-reliant India.” He added in a post on X, “The sweat of the Indian farmers, the hard work of our scientists, and the 140 crore Indians have demonstrated their capabilities.” Chouhan also said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a>\u2019s leadership, India is moving ahead to achieve the goal of a developed nation.The BJP<\/a> also hit out at Rahul Gandhi<\/a> for backing Trump’s dead economy remark, saying that the latest figures showing India\u2019s economy grew by 7.8 per cent in April\u2013June were the “hardest slap of reality” for Congress leader. BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya said, “For the acerbic, delusional, frustrated, and rejected Rahul Gandhi \u2014 the same man who declared India a \u2018dead economy\u2019 \u2014 the latest GDP numbers are the hardest slap of reality.” He added, “India has just clocked 7.8 per cent GDP growth in Q1 of FY 2025-26, leading the world\u2019s major economies.” He also said, “The only thing \u2018dead\u2019 is Rahul Gandhi\u2019s credibility.” In another post on X, Malviya said that India is not only growing but also proving the “doomsayers wrong, quarter after quarter.” He added, “The same purveyors of the \u2018India is a dead economy\u2019 narrative are now scrambling to hide their faces.” Rahul Gandhi, referring to US President Donald Trump\u2019s criticism of the Indian economy<\/a>, had recently said that everyone except Prime Minister Modi and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman knew that the country\u2019s economy was \u201cdead.\u201d As Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, he also said that the BJP-led government had destroyed India\u2019s economic, defence, and foreign policies, and had run the country \u201cto the ground.\u201d His remarks came after Trump last month called India a “dead economy,” and announced 25 per cent tariffs on imports from India, along with an unspecified \u201cpenalty\u201d for the purchase of Russian military equipment and crude oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Union agriculture minister Shivraj Chouhan on Saturday countered US President Donald Trump\u2019s description of India as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[78450,51170,4,28,101,5987,2344,78452,5984,5985,23396,5,78451,5986],"class_list":["post-122413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-7-8-percent-gdp","tag-bjp","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-economic-growth","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-indian-economy","tag-narendra-modi","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}