The Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha also accused the Prime Minister's Office of using “spurious statistics” to claim lack of development in Gujarat.
Communication Adviser to the PMO Pankaj Pachauri has tweeted several figures since yesterday which show that Gujarat is behind a number of states in growth rate. Prasad said Pachauri's figures are based on “wrong and fictional” data.
Pachauri, he said, could not put out such information without the consent of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded an apology from the PMO.
