PM Modi sparks debate on politics of freebies. Here’s what data says on subsidies, fiscal deficit

Even as PM Modi attacks freebie culture in politics, his government is estimated to run up the second highest subsidy bill in India's history, after the highest in 2020-21 also under him. Whose giveaways are revdis, and whose vitamin pills? Shekhar Gupta decodes the data in episode 1130 of #cuttheclutter

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Article by Harish Damodaran : https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/how-high-the-centres-subsidy-bill-could-go-this-year-8318677/

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's full speech: https://youtu.be/k3LZNRcSaYk

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