Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday took a dig at the Centre over its repeated admissions in Parliament that it has no data on matters such as farmers’ suicides, migrant workers’ deaths or coronavirus fatalities among health workers. Tharoor equated NDA, the acronym of National Democratic Alliance, to “no data available.”
“No data on migrant workers, no data on farmer suicides, wrong data on fiscal stimulus, dubious data on Covid deaths, cloudy data on GDP [Gross Domestic Product] growth – this government gives a whole new meaning to the term NDA,” Tharoor said in a tweet. It was accompanied by a caricature of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Home Minister Amit Shah carrying placards with the letters N, D and A, and the words no, data and available. The image was titled “the name changers”.