AGARTALA, June 7 (TIWN): Pinching a section of mainstream media, National Congress on Thursday has slammed them calling Bhakt media for intriguing against each factual data before the election.Addressing media at AICC headquarter at New Delhi, AICC spokesperson Pawan Khera said, “Congress raise various data like unemployment highest in last 45 years, but those media on that time termed them as fake propaganda. Now they have accepted that these are not fake propaganda, rather facts”. “Govt is now trying to keep the public engaged with different useless issues. There are 45,000 employees whose salaries can not be given by the Government. We want to ask, why your (Govt’s) focus is not going in that direction ?”, Khera said.According to Central Statistics Office (CSO) it has been revealed that GDP growth during 2018-19 fiscal stood at 6.8 per cent, lower than 7.2 per cent in the previous financial year.Govt of India has released data that the unemployment rate is increasing at the national level without a pause and 6.1% which is indeed highest in last 45 years.

India’s economic growth rate slipped to a five-year low of 5.8 per cent in January-March 2018-19, owing to poor performance in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors, official data released Friday said. As per the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the growth in gross domestic product during the 2018-19 fiscal stood at 6.8 per cent, lower than 7.2 per cent in the previous financial year.

The GDP growth was slowest since 2014-15 as the previous low was 6.4 per cent in 2013-14. China, on the other hand, registered 6.4 per cent growth in the January-March 2019 quarter, thereby dislodging India as the world’s fastest major economy.

Noteworthy, former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi on Monday took a critical view of the media’s role during the recently held Lok Sabha elections, alleging that instead of “asking tough questions to leaders of the day”, it was “only questioning” the opposition parties.

“Normally, the role of media is to question the government, what they are doing, what they are not doing… but they (media) were only questioning the Opposition… ‘Why they (opposition parties) didn’t do something 50 years ago?’ Is that what the media should be doing?” Quraishi asked.