> am no modi bhakt or bjp supporter, but it is appalling that people will just oppose and disbelieve anything the current government does.

They had it coming. Its an entirely natural and well deservrd reaction to 'crying wolf' and fudging numbers. Reputation will eventually catch up. Thats how Bayesian inference works.

I could say the exact same thing about Congress's GDP numbers. It should good progress over the years, until NDA came in and downgraded them. I would be critical no matter which govt it is. The underlying problem I have is with the inefficiencies of the informal counting/measuring process. If the ruling govt pokes its nose in a "supposed to be" independent authority carrying out the process, then of course I would be skeptical. Especially after it has been exposed multiple times.

"it is appalling that people will just oppose and disbelieve anything the current government does"

Frankly, I'm not the one running troll farms and calling everyone anti-national. Nor am I the one killing my accuser.

"I can claim very confidently that you would have no problem if Manmohan Singh announced this news."

I would believe the news by anyone who has integrity.

"Frankly, I'm not the one running troll farms and calling everyone anti-national. Nor am I the one killing my accuser."

Neither is every single person who is rooting for the other side in this, or any debate, including, likely, the person you replied to. While pretending that everyone on the other side is running troll farms, it's a strawman that isn't actually helpful for debate.

Do you have any specific reasons why this specific tiger census is untrue?