<div align="justify">Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today criticised the government for the decline in GDP growth and said it was manufacturing other issues to deflect the country's attention from its failures.<br /><br />"Falling GDP.Rising unemployment. Every other issue is manufactured to distract us from this fundamental failure," he tweeted.<br /><br />He also tagged a news report that said the country had lost its tag of being the fastest growing economy in the world after the fourth quarter GDP growth declined to 6.1 per cent.<br /><br />Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had dubbed the decision to demonetise high currency notes as "legalised plunder and a monumental failure" and predicted a 2 per cent fall in GDP. Later, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram had also criticised the note ban and said it would lead to a fall in GDP growth.<br /></div>
<div align="justify">Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today criticised the government for the decline in GDP growth and said it was manufacturing other issues to deflect the country's attention from its failures.<br /><br />"Falling GDP.Rising unemployment. Every other issue is manufactured to distract us from this fundamental failure," he tweeted.<br /><br />He also tagged a news report that said the country had lost its tag of being the fastest growing economy in the world after the fourth quarter GDP growth declined to 6.1 per cent.<br /><br />Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had dubbed the decision to demonetise high currency notes as "legalised plunder and a monumental failure" and predicted a 2 per cent fall in GDP. Later, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram had also criticised the note ban and said it would lead to a fall in GDP growth.<br /></div>