Good times, bad questions

When a slew of questions on fuel price hike by the government was raised at a Cabinet briefing earlier this week, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad chided reporters, telling them to ask “better” questions when the economy was “booming”.”The Indian economy is booming, and you do not have any questions on that,” he asked. “You seem to be concerned only with fuel price hike.” The economy grew at 7.9 per cent in the March quarter of 2015-16 and the government achieved the fiscal deficit target of 3.9 per cent of gross domestic product in FY16, although private investment remained sluggish