It all started with

Do read RT @pragmatic_d What does the SGDP growth rate data of states since 2004-05 tell us? Evidently, nothing. http://t.co/A5miAXsr — Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) May 2, 2012

and then

BS Editor AKB punctures Gujarat's growth claims in his column.6% growth for 7 yrs.Whereas Mah, TN & Haryana hav had double digit growth — Vivek Sengupta (@vsengupta) May 2, 2012

The original article in Business Standard by AK Bhattacharya.

Then i had tweeted a bunch in the morning and left it at that and forgot about the same.

http://t.co/EEtb5Rsh – Basic Arithmetic & Economics gone for a toss and he writes for business standard — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

So Mr. Bhattacharya writes that Guj had 6.3% growth Annually from 2004 – 2005 to 2010-2011 in 7 years 1/n — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

2/n – 2004-05 -GSDP at current prices – 203373 Crores – 2010-2011 – 513173 Cr – Avg Growth 21.76% — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

3/n – 2004-05 – GSDP at constant prices – 203373 Crores – 2010-2011 – 365295 Cr – Avg growth rate – 11.37% — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

4/n – 2004-05 – NSDP at current prices – 172265 Crores – 2010-2011 – 440942 Cr – Avg growth rate – 22.28% — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

5/n – 2004-05 – NSDP at current prices – 172265 Crores – 2010-2011 – 309409 Cr – Avg growth rate – 11.37% — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

6/n – soeconomists, mathematicians and experts, can you please look at numbers and say how was it 6.3% growth for 7 years in guj — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

Then Soutik From BBC Came up with this Gem and a link to his BBC Article with a Headline – Is Gujarat Red Hot Economy a Myth? quoting the same Business Standard article.

The Original BBC Article is Below.

As usual again the crowd went delierious now with even BBC quoting it.

That is when i said enough and put out a challenge of a lakh of rupees for anyone to prove the BS & BBC Numbers or retract and modify.

I am ready to put in a lakh of rupees to anyone who can prove that Gujarat has grown by 6.3% in last 7 years as mentioned in BS — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

Any one ready for that challenge? Else a public apology by everyone who carried that BS article including Rediff, BBC and others is in order — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

Last but not the least – Accept your intellectual dishonesty of not doing your fricking homework and you call urself esteemed — Vijay (@centerofright) May 2, 2012

After the above then the first retraction and corrected article in Business Standard comes up.

Followed by the BBC with a change in Head line – Gujarat IS a Red Hot Economy – Article below.

All i say is, you may have liking or hatred towards Narendra Modi. Try the electoral route to defeat him or try proving that the numbers he quote are wrong with facts and please don’t peddle falsehoods as facts.

Also remember that every state’s growth is a growth for India as a whole. I donot know how folks can forget this simple fact. The reason the negative campaign was to be countered as remembered that a lie repeated N number of times becomes the truth.

P.S. Business Standard carried this correction in their news paper on Page 10 4th May Edition. Just putting it on record.