Could be a matter of a few months if not a year: Hardeep Puri on India becoming 4th largest economy
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Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Hardeep Singh Puri on May 26 during a press conference in Chandigarh, lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the growth in the GDP of the nation. Following this he presented data claiming to dwarf the growth during UPA’s regime."...As per the released public data of IMF, our GDP is $ 3.95 trillion and we are in the fifth position. Japan is in the fourth position with a GDP of $ 4.1 trillion. If our growth rate is going on at 7-8%, and Japan's is flat, it's a matter of a few months if not a year, our economy will reach fourth place... During the UPA govt between 2004 to 2014, the expenditure on urban space was less than one lakh seventy thousand crores, and in the Modi govt, in these 10 years, it has increased by 11-12
