Behind Sambit Patra’s struggle with trillion’s zeroes, a Congressman who was XLRI professor


New Delhi: In his takedown of BJP’s media panellist Sambit Patra, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh found an opening in familiar territory — the economy and the numbers surrounding it.


Debating on the 100 days of the Modi government on a Hindi channel on 10 September, Patra decided to play up the Modi government’s ambitions to make the country a $5 trillion economy by 2024. Not only wasn’t Vallabh buying it, he decided to pose a rather simple question: “Just how many zeroes are there in a trillion?”

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