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India is the key growth engine for the world, IMF said on Thursday, noting that the country’s third-quarter growth came out stronger than expected.
Congress leader and LoP Rahul Gandhi. (Image: PTI/File)
As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday noted that India is the key growth engine for the world and the country’s third-quarter growth came out stronger than expected, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday attacked Rahul Gandhi, terming it as terrible news for the Congress leader who has claimed that the Indian economy is “dead”.
Hitting out at the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya targeted Rahul Gandhi and said, “This is terrible news for Rahul Gandhi, who declared India’s economy dead.”
“The IMF says otherwise. Far from collapsing, India’s economy is roaring, resilient, growing, and outperforming expectations. Yet again, the pessimism of the Congress leadership stands exposed, contradicted by global institutions and hard data,” he said in a post on X.
This is terrible news for Rahul Gandhi, who declared India’s economy “dead.”The IMF says otherwise.
Far from collapsing, India’s economy is roaring, resilient, growing, and outperforming expectations. Yet again, the pessimism of the Congress leadership stands exposed,… https://t.co/LBRT8biZ2o
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) January 16, 2026
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla also slammed Rahul Gandhi, stating that the IMF has again fact-checked the Congress leader for saying that the Indian economy is dead. He further called Rahul Gandhi a modern-day Pinocchio and named him as “Bharat Badnami brigade leader”.
Rahul Gandhi fact checked againSays Indian economy is dead but IMF differs !!
Rahul is modern day Pinocchio 🤥
Bharat Badnami brigade leader = Rahul Gandhi pic.twitter.com/HFNdOhdgdp
— Shehzad Jai Hind (Modi Ka Parivar) (@Shehzad_Ind) January 16, 2026
IMF Says “India Is A Key Growth Engine For The World”
India is the key growth engine for the world, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday, noting that the country’s third-quarter growth came out stronger than expected. “What we have seen in India is that India is a key growth engine for the world,” Julie Kozack, Director of IMF’s Communications Department, told reporters at a news conference here on Thursday.
She was responding to a query on the IMF’s assessment of India’s growth story in 2025.
Kozack said the IMF’s most recent assessment, conducted as part of its Article IV Staff Report, had projected India’s growth for the 2025–26 fiscal year at 6.6 per cent, largely anchored in strong domestic consumption.
January 16, 2026, 09:39 IST
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