‘Fiscal proposals unless rectified will doom the economy’

PTI Updated - November 14, 2017 at 04:33 PM.

Terming the Union Budget as “ridiculous”, the Janata Party President, Dr Subramanian Swamy, today said that the fiscal proposals unless rectified will “doom the economy’’.

“The 2012-13 Budget figures and numbers are all cockeyed.

For example, fiscal deficit of Rs 4.79 lakh crore in 2012-13 targeted to be 5.1 per cent of GDP means a GDP growth of 20.6 per cent in one year. This is ridiculous even in current prices,” he said in a statement here.

“Most of the budget numbers like fiscal deficit figures, are ridiculous, or concocted or plain inconsistent...this budget unless rectified will doom the economy,” he said.

Published on March 17, 2012 08:10