NITISH AND HIS STATISTICS:

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nitish-kumar-narendra-modi-arrogance-mount-everest-bihar-gujarat-bjp-jdu/1/349235.html

Statistics can always be twisted by comparing data not as it is, but as you please. Nitish is lending himself to be called a great twister. He claims the phenomenally high figure of per capital income in Gujarat was not reflected in the 'human development index'. Haven't heard of this HD index ever before! He says growth rate of income in Bihar was more than Gujarat and compares only percentage increase during five years. If income in Gujarat went up from say 80 to 84 during that period it will be 5% growth in Gujarat. At the same time if the income in Bihar went up from 20 to 30, it will be 50%! Nitish says, "You see how Modi is trying to cheat people by wrong statistics!" By not giving the ACTUAL figures of growth, it is Nitish who is fudging the statistics. Left to himself if a poor man now eats two rotis instead of the one he was eating five years before, Nitish will say the standard of living of poor in Bihar has doubled in two years! His other quoted statistics also do not give the actual figures for comparison, but only percentages without mentioning the basic data for actual comparison. About school dropout rates, why he switches to national average instead of Bihar's percentage? Again a cheater; it is because the percentage has fared poorly in this case also. But, a fool that he is, he asks a question at the end: "Why such a situation in a developed state?". The answer is contained in his question. "It is because Gujarat is a developed State." In a greatly developed state further increases will always be lower IN PERCENTAGE as compared to other states which are coming up still from the rock bottom slowly. But Nitish knows his people whom he has been hoodwinking all these days with such statistics. Not anymore.