{"id":66534,"date":"2016-07-25T08:41:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T03:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.telugu360.com\/?p=66534"},"modified":"2017-04-06T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T03:48:10","slug":"arun-jaitley-controversial-statement-on-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telugu360.com\/arun-jaitley-controversial-statement-on-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailtley reiterates Naidu’s controversial stance on Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Sunday said the agriculture in India barely give subsistence earnings to farmers and this was leading to inequality. Naidu said the same in his book ‘Manasulo Maata’, which got him into trouble and a point on which opposition parties frequently attack him. This statements are widely credited as one of the reasons for his 2004 defeat. <\/p>\n
Jailtley said the country cannot afford to have 55 percent people in agriculture whose contribution to the national GDP is only 16 percent.<\/p>\n