The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) posted an image on Twitter on Thursday that read “Hacked” in bold. The tweets came after the Twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked this morning.
However, the party’s post on Twitter was not about any cybersecurity alarm, but was directed at the worrying state of the economy and the prevailing situation of the coronavirus.
When one clicks on the image, the text inside says: “Now that we have your attention, we just want to inform you that unemployment in India has reached a 45-year high, the GDP growth rate is the lowest in 40 years and COVID-19 cases have reached 83,000 in a day that is the highest in the world. ”
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– AAP (@AamAadmiParty) September 3, 2020
The party led by the Prime Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, noted that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted 23.9% in April-June, as the closure of Covid-19 weighed on the already declining consumer demand and investment. He also noted that the unemployment rate in the country is currently at a 45-year high and GDP has fallen to a 40-year low.
The other reference he made was to the increase in coronavirus cases in the country. With daily Covid-19 cases crossing the bleak milestone of 80,000 for the second time, India’s infection count on Thursday rose to 3,853,406. The number of victims of the infection has risen to more than 67,000.
Several opposition parties, including Congress, have criticized the Modi government for falling GDP. Rahul Gandhi even released a four-part video series attacking the government for the “economic tragedy.”
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