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On Saturday, 3 August, as Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant attributed the slowdown of GDP growth to “too much of reforms”, experts and common people alike, on Twitter failed to wrap their heads around the proposition.
The policy think tank chief was speaking at a summit held in New Delhi.
Not long after, social media users expressed their dismay and confusion over how economic reforms could possibly hamper growth.
Others pointed out the flaws and failure of the ‘reforms’ listed out by the Niti Aayog chief in his argument.
A section of Twitter also pointed out that reforms are effected to provide impetus to the economy in the first place.
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