Opium wins.

"In an unprecedented move, the Union government has suspended the director of the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), KS James, citing an irregularity in recruitment, sources have told The Wire." The IIPS prepares the National Family Health Survey report and "Sources told The Wire that James had been asked by the government to resign earlier as the government was not happy with certain data sets that came up in the surveys conducted by the IIPS. However, he was reluctant to step down for the reasons being given." According to a note, James is under investigation. "Titled, 'Brief Note on Suspension of Prof James, Director and Senior Professor, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)', the statement was put out ostensibly by the Union health ministry on July 29. The note is undated, unsigned and on paper which does not carry an official letterhead." The Wire. Cowards and criminals prefer anonymity. It is very brave of The Wire to publish such underhand activity because a survey of the Indian media by Lokniti and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies found that "82% of those surveyed responded that their media organisation supported the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)." The Wire. "Over half of English language journalists reported a higher prevalence of experience of workplace discrimination based on their political opinions." Just as journalists support the BJP to protect their jobs, so do economists. "Policy positions no longer seem based on economics. Instead, economists' public utterances tend to signal a leaning towards personalities or politics, perhaps to get picked for policymaking positions, or seem to vent frustration at getting fired from their jobs," wrote Puja Mehra. Our gross domestic product (GDP) figures are suspect wrote Pramit Bhattacharya. "Given the data in India's statistical system, annual data on many sectors is unavailable. India's national accountants use outdated data, heroic assumptions and rough proxies to fill these gaps in the national accounting database. Hence, the first step to make sense of our growth rates is to put an error band around GDP figures and GDP growth rates." If the data are adverse the government simply suppresses them. "On January 28, 2019, PC Mohanan resigned as the acting chairman of the National Statistical Commission (NSC)...in protest at a delay in releasing a new set of jobs statistics. Another member of NSC J Meenakshi, quit with him." NDTV. Even after 4 years, the government has not provided information about discrepancies between Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) for the general election in 2019. The Wire. It cannot. Prof Sabyasachi Das of Ashoka University wrote a paper 'Democratic Backsliding in the World's Largest Democracy', in which he examined all the data of the 2019 election and found "significant irregularities" and "in constituencies that were closely contested between a candidate from the incumbent party and a rival, the incumbent party (BJP) won disproportionately more of them than lost. This is known as the McCrary test." Facts are inconvenient. "Religion is the opium of the people," said Karl Marx. wikipedia. Dish out the opium of Hindutva and win. Suppress facts.