Has India’s Per Capita Income Doubled As Claimed By BJP Chief JP Nadda?

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By Mohammed Kudrati Jagat Prakash Nadda, the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has misleadingly claimed that India’s per capita gross domestic product (GDP) has nearly doubled from ₹79,000 to ₹1.5 lakh. He has given no other details alongside this claim. BOOM referred to data from the Reserve Bank of India to find that these numbers have been cherrypicked by him. While India has far exceeded the ₹1.5 lakh mark as claimed by Nadda only in the last financial year, it is GDP in nominal prices. Since this metric is measured in the prices of the ongoing financial year, it is not a stand…

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