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As a recent paper by Pramit Bhattacharya shows, India’s statistical system has been on a decline, especially in the last decade. Since 2015, there have been controversies related to data on Gross Domestic Product, stalled investment projects, unemployment data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), data on sanitation, consumer expenditure survey, etc.

https://thewire.in/government/civil-registration-system-crs-data-census-2021-covid-death-birth 

Dilip D'Souza @DeathEndsFun
Dear @smritiirani , let's be clear:
1) There's zero wrong if Sunita Viswanath and Rahul Gandhi meet.
2) There's zero wrong in being an "associate" of George Soros.
3) Soros is critical of our Government. That doesn't make him anti-India.

Who Is Sunita Viswanath And What’s The Controversy Surrounding Her Meeting With Rahul Gandhi In US?  by Ritesh K Srivastava https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/who-is-sunita-viswanath-and-what-s-the-controversy-surrounding-her-meeting-with-rahul-gandhi-in-us/ar-AA1dc9Hi

A women's rights activist, Sunita Viswanath is the co-founder of Hindus for Human Rights. In 2001, she co-founded the nonprofit humanitarian organization Women for Afghan Women (WAW). In 2011, Sunita Viswanath co-founded Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus - a progressive Hindu movement aligned with social justice commitments to anti-casteism and anti-racism.

She has also been accused of being a “proxy” for George Soros in the backdrop of allegations that her NGO for Afghan women received funds from the billionaire US investor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj_WVZ5CWSE  Smiriti Iranis Press Conference..

From Sunita Vishwanath: https://mailchi.mp/e29f61a2f80a/they-can-sue-us-but-they-cant-silence-us-10140551?e=92f3be0cc3 Our organization, Hindus for Human Rights, is dedicated to mobilizing the Hindu diaspora community to reclaim our religion from the clutches of Hindu nationalist ideology, epitomized by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). We have tirelessly fought against this regressive mentality, co-leading protests in New York and Washington, DC during Mr. Modi's recent United States visit.

 Minister of Minority Rights, Smriti Irani, brandished a photo of me sitting next to Rahul Gandhi, alleging ties with George Soros and unfounded claims that Soros intends to dismantle the Republic of India. These outrageous accusations, propagated by the BJP IT Cell and Hindu nationalist platforms, seek to discredit our genuine efforts for equality and justice.

The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook https://jewishcurrents.org/the-hindu-nationalists-using-the-pro-israel-playbook 

To counter what they view as a rising tide of prejudice, the HAF and other Hindu American groups , ... Indian Americans have mode led their congressional activism on that of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and AIPAC; Indian lobbyists have partnered with these groups to achieve shared defense goals, including arms deals between India and Israel and a landmark nuclear agreement between India and the US. Along the way, these Jewish groups have trained a generation of Hindu lob byists and advocates, offering strategies at joint summits and providing a steady stream of informal advice. “We shared with them the Jewish approach to political activism,” Ann Schaffer, an AJC leader, told the Forward in 2002. “We want to give them the tools to further their political agenda.” Shukla told Jewish Currents that the HAF continues to work closely with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the AJC, whether by “being co-amici curiae on briefs to the US Supreme Court,” or by “lending our support to one another’s letters to Congress.”

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hindu American activists also founded a new cohort of organizations focused less on “matters in the ‘homeland’” than on “the terrain of Indian-American life,”( The protean forms of Yankee Hindutva by Biju Mathew & Vijay Prashad   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014198700328971?journalCode=rers20