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- Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju shared a video of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang praising India's IT sector and AI potential, saying 'some Indian politicians need to hear this' in a jibe at the Opposition.
- The video shows Huang calling India one of the world's leading IT industries and recalling a decade-old conversation with PM Modi about artificial intelligence.
- The post came amid a dispute over India's 7.8% April-June GDP growth, after former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg argued the figures were flattered by a downward revision of last year's GDP at current prices.
- Congress' Kerala unit mocked the GDP data with a beer-mug image, prompting sharp responses from Rijiju and commerce minister Piyush Goyal.
What to watch next
- Any official response on Subhash Chandra Garg's claim that GDP at current prices was revised downward
- Whether the Opposition escalates its criticism of the GDP figures
- Huang's expectation of Indian startups building a local AI economy and related government announcements
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Jensen Huang
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“India is one of the world’s leading IT industries, and this is the beginning of a new IT platform.”
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…affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday shared a video of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang praising India's IT growth and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's focus on artificial intelligence. In the video, Huang is heard saying, “ India is one of the world’s leading IT industries, and this is the beginning of a new IT platform. ” He added that he talked to Modi a decade back about artificial intelligence and that he was excited to see how Indian startups will build a local AI economy. Deep Dive “I had the benefit of seeing Modi ji a decade ago…
Kiren Rijiju
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“Is Congress Party in a state of deep intoxication due to drinking too much beer or Congressmen are so swayed by their blind loathing of India's growth that they have lost touch with the ground reality?”
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…But now over India's GDP: 'Drinking too much beer or blind loathing' Reacting to the post whether the party was intoxicated due to “too much bear” or was “blind loating of India's growth” the reason behind the post. “ Is Congress Party in a state of deep intoxication due to drinking too much beer or Congressmen are so swayed by their blind loathing of India's growth that they have lost touch with the ground reality? ” he wrote on X. Commerce minister Piyush Goyal also hit out at the opposition and the former bureaucrat over criticism of the GDP figures and said, "A few jobless people call themselves economists and appear on TV…
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