The LPG puzzle - Whichever way one slices the data, it is clear that claims of a Rs 15,000 crore sav

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Irony died a thousand deaths when in the current charged environment of purported anti-national university campuses, Aadhaar is being hailed by the BJP’s minister of finance, Arun Jaitley, while a standing committee led by the BJP’s own former finance minister, Yashwant Sinha, rejected Aadhaar as an anti-national project in 2011. That committee devoted an entire section in its report to “national security vs UID” and insinuated that Aadhaar aided illegal immigrants and infiltration from across the borders.

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The finance minister, during the discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the Aadhaar bill, claimed that a sum of Rs 14,672 crore was saved in LPG subsidy for the year 2014-15 under the direct benefits transfer scheme. The prime minister had publicly claimed a similar savings of Rs 15,000 crore in LPG subsidy. The finance minister and his officials were confronted with evidence by independent, globally reputed think-tanks of savings on LPG subsidy being in the range of merely Rs 12 to 14 crore.

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