‘Intellectually dishonest’: Congress claims India to be one of the ‘most equal’ countries on India

The Congress demanded that the Press Information Bureau (PIB) should clarify as the origin of this press release and withdraw it immediately.

Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Communications Jeram Ramesh said, “AAP Chopram Samaj. Ramesh said in a statement that three months after his release, on July 5, Modi government’s drumblers and cheerleaders issued a press release in” Press (MIS) Information Bureau “, which” claimed “stunning touch-off-patch” claimed that India is one of the most like societies in the world.

In a press statement issued on July 6, the Congress once again warned that the government’s data interpretation was based on the selection of a benchmark dated to measure poverty with limited availability and uncertain quality of existing data, he said.

It now emerges that in its analysis of the World Bank report, the Modi government was not only “careless”, it was also a lump sum “intellectually dishonest”, Ramesh said.

He claimed that to reach its conclusion, the Modi government chose to deliberately use two different benchmarks: consumption inequality in India and income inequality in other countries.

Ramesh said, “We need to use the same metric to do justice in comparison between two institutions. It is not only a fundamental principle of economic analysis, but one of general knowledge.”

He said that the option of measuring consumption inequality in India was also deliberately made.

Ramesh said that consumption inequality is always less than income inequality because rich saves a large part of their income.

“When we compare India’s income equality to the rest of the world, India performs very poorly: India is at 176 of the total 216 countries in 2019. In other words, India is not the 4th most similar society – it is actually the 40th most uneven society in the world,” he said.

Ramesh said, “Income inequality in India has increased, and has deteriorated under Modi Raj in the last few years.”

Money inequality in India is more than income inequality, which shows the inconsistent advantage of the elite in the last 11 years, he said.

“Such fraud analysis is being published under the aegis of PIB, revealing one of the two things: a disturbed reduction of talent in this government, or equally distracted deficiency of intellectual integrity. PIB must clarify this press release as the origin of this press release and take it back immediately,” Ramesh said.

He said, “There is a dangerous trend of such random ad hoc statements and announcements coming from Modi government officials,” he claimed.

Ramesh said, “In May 2025, we saw the statements of incompatible and deviation from the Niti Niyam officials on the size of the Indian economy. Pencent of political leadership for deformation and promotion has clearly cheated the authorities,” Ramesh said.

He said that by “doctoral data”, the Modi government cannot only remove the reality of what is staring at us – inspired by growing and deep inequalities, its mindset and policies, he said.

In its release, the government blamed various initiatives and lack of inequality in schemes during the last decade.

The statement said, “India’s Guinea Index is at 25.5, which is the fourth most in the world after Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Belarus.”
The Congress recently expressed concern over the World Bank report on Sunday stating that poverty and inequality in India are high, and requested the Center to take steps, including bringing GST reforms and ending corporate bias.

Citing the World Bank’s poverty and equity brief for India in April 2025, Ramesh said three months after his release, “Drummates and cheerleaders of the Narendra Modi government have started queuing up World Bank data to make a shocking claim for one of the most similar societies in the world.

He had said that it was good news that the Center is trying hard to get out of this report, partially limited availability and uncertain quality of government data -is responsible for the selection of benchmarks to measure poverty.

The Congress leader said, “Any country that does not have a poverty rate of 28.1 percent can make a justified claim to be one of the most similar societies in the world.”