Budget 2025 commentary:

Articles:https://t.co/dbSvxkl98Yhttps://t.co/WTYPWJxGZW

Interviews:https://t.co/0ixUit8kGZhttps://t.co/8IN0Vabggg pic.twitter.com/uFLjOAZoMz

— Praveen Chakravarty (@pravchak) February 2, 2025

‘Get out of the way’ said the Chief Economic Advisor to governments

Implying that the Modi govt & state govts are standing in the way of corporate investment, that has been low & stagnant

Clearly this advice didnt travel across the thick walls of CEA’s to FM @nsitharaman

Watch pic.twitter.com/Q0eFGNtZ8w

— Praveen Chakravarty (@pravchak) February 6, 2025

Modi’s 2016 demonetisation, hailed by ‘experts’, was meant to reduce “black money”

These ‘experts’ were rewarded with CEA/RBI/PMEAC posts but what happnd to “black money”?

Currency with public ⬆️
Retail digital payments ⬆️

Which means cash is being ‘blackened’ more!

I explain https://t.co/PE2bnVvN2O pic.twitter.com/b4ZtIdHJ2g

— Praveen Chakravarty (@pravchak) November 8, 2024

The @INCIndia ’s need for a fresh look, a ‘politics of aspiration’ and the @ProfCong’s role in developing it
– snippets from my interaction with @santwana99 at The New Indian Express ThindEdu event in Chennai pic.twitter.com/whsVUve2KX

— Praveen Chakravarty (@pravchak) January 30, 2025

Tomorrow is the 75th birthday of the Election Commission

But Dr. Ambedkar & other founding leaders would not want to wish EC a ‘happy birthday’

Why?
Even if EC’s birthday is to be marked, what is the gift it needs?

My article in @the_hindu explains 👇🏽https://t.co/EkQKIGrsat pic.twitter.com/irLkVcAH4b

— Praveen Chakravarty (@pravchak) January 24, 2025

CEC Rajiv Kumar’s grandstanding about the sanctity of the voter lists & his flowery Hindi poetry apart, how did the EC enrol more voters for the Maharashtra state election than its total 18+ adult population as estimated by the Modi govt’s own report?

Something doesnt add up..👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/2V1sCdkOpv

— Praveen Chakravarty (@pravchak) January 11, 2025