evidence: The first claim is that ‘economy growing at a robust rate, with 7.4% GDP growth forecast for FY 2018-19’. [...] The Global Economic Prospects report of the World Bank states that ‘India’s GDP is forecast to grow by 7.3% in FY2018-19 and 7.5% thereafter’. A response in Lok Sabha from December 2018 states that ‘the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at constant (2011-12) prices for India in second quarter (July-September) of 2018-19 was 7.1%, higher as compared to the growth of 6.3% recorded in the second quarter of the previous year. The growth rate of GDP in the first quarter (April-June) of 2018-19 was 8.2%. Despite higher crude oil prices and weaker rupee, the economy grew at a robust rate of 7.6% in the first half of 2018-19’.