In a fiery intervention in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dismantled criticism over the IMF’s ‘C’ grade on India’s GDP data, calling the entire debate ill‑informed and insisting that the Fund is actually upbeat about India’s macro story. She also noted that India scores a ‘B’ on most other pillars such as inflation statistics, government finance, external sector, and monetary and financial data, placing it in line with several major emerging economies. Watch her remarks here.