New Delhi: Former Reserve Financial institution of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan briefly joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra by strolling alongside Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Wednesday, because the march handed via Sawai Madhopur metropolis in Rajasthan.
The Congress tweeted a photograph of Rajan with Gandhi, who’s main the journey, with the message, “The variety of individuals standing up towards hate, to unite the nation, says that we’ll succeed.”
Rajan had served because the RBI governor from 2013 to 2016. He’s additionally Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance on the College of Chicago Sales space College of Enterprise. His distinguished profession additionally consists of his stint because the Chief Economist and Director of Analysis on the Worldwide Financial Fund from 2003 to 2006.
#BharatJodoYatra में @RahulGandhi जी के साथ कदम मिलाते RBI के पूर्व गवर्नर श्री रघुराम राजन…
नफ़रत के खिलाफ देश जोड़ने के लिए खड़े होने वालों की बढ़ती संख्या बताती है कि- हम होंगे कामयाब। pic.twitter.com/MFV6izCpcw
— Congress (@INCIndia) December 14, 2022
Throughout his tenure because the RBI governor, Rajan had been essential of the monetary measures taken by the Narendra Modi authorities, together with demonetisation.
Nevertheless, earlier this 12 months, talking at an occasion in Raipur, the previous RBI governor had mentioned that India has enough overseas change reserves and wouldn’t land in an financial mess like neighbours Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
The BJP shortly retorted to Rajan becoming a member of the march, saying that he “fancies himself as the following Manmohan Singh.”
“Raghuram Rajan, former RBI Governor, a Congress appointee, becoming a member of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra shouldn’t be a shock. He fancies himself as the following Manmohan Singh. Simply that his commentary on India’s financial system needs to be discarded with disdain. It’s colored and opportunistic…,” tweeted Amit Malviya, in-charge of BJP’s IT cell.
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