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The discussion on a short-duration notice on the economic situation continued in the Rajya Sabha for the second day on Wednesday, with the opposition members raising their concerns over unemployment..
"In the per capita GDP index, out of 194 nations, India is at 133..
The condition of the common people shows where we stand even if we are the fifth (largest economy in the world)," Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Verma said in the House..
BJP MP Mahesh Jethmalani retorted saying the opposition is playing on selective data and distorted facts...
Per capita income is even less than one-fifth of China and less than 1/32 of the USA," he said.. Opposition leaders, Fauzia Khan from NCP, Mahua Manjhi from JMM, Priyanka Chaturvedi from the Shiv Sena, P Wilson from the DMK and others raised questions over the unemployment in the country and termed this as a jobless growth...
