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Discussing economy? PM Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley, Amit Shah meet in Delhi

Amit Shah cut his his three-day tour of Kerala and Karnataka to participate in the meeting in New Delhi.

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After defending the Indian economy on Wednesday in an hour-long speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, and BJP President Amit Shah met in Delhi on Thursday. Sources suggest that they might have discussed the recent state of Indian economy. 

Amit Shah cut his three-day tour of Kerala and Karnataka to participate in the meeting in New Delhi.  

Sources further suggest that the meeting has two main agendas: economy and the forthcoming Assembly polls in Gujarat that are due by the end of this year.

Sources say that the Prime Minister has taken into consideration the bleak economic scenario that the Reserve Bank of India has indicated in its survey. 

The meeting of the top three business leaders came a day after when Prime Minister lashed out at critics of his economic policies, the Prime Minister said the Indian economy was on firm footing and that he will never jeopardise the country's future for present gains.

Modi told a gathering of Company Secretaries that his government will continue reforms and will not hesitate to take decision to reverse the GDP slowdown witnessed in last two quarters.

"I will not jeopardise the future of the country for my present gains," he said, adding the government would focus on structural reforms rather than giving doles to win praises.

Modi said his critics were focusing on the slowdown in the last two quarters but were ignoring the fact that the BJP government had brought down inflation from 10 per cent in the UPA regime to 2.5 per cent, shrunk Current 

GDP growth was 5.7 per cent or less than that on eight occasions during previous UPA government, he said, lamenting how pessimists were describing the April-June growth of 5.7 per cent as doomsday.Modi made comments days after senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha in an article headlined "I need to speak up now", described the economy as a "mess" that will not resuscitate before the next general elections.

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