New Delhi, October 20
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was his contemporary in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the both stood on “similar” lines on “certain” issues during their academic years in the university.
Speaking in a TV interview, he said it was not as if the two had deep disagreements. “(Sitharaman was) One of the people whom I knew well... We were even often on similar sides on certain issues. She was my contemporary in JNU. She knew me, I knew her,” he said. “I would not say we were close friends, but we were friends. And it’s not that we had deep disagreements.”
The statement gains significance as Banerjee, one of the three Nobel prize winners in economics this year, has faced flak from several quarters in the government, including Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, after he said the Indian economy was in a “tailspin”.
When “the economy is going into a tailspin is the time when you don’t worry so much about monetary stability and you worry a little more about demand, the demand is a huge problem right now in the economy,” Banerjee said in the US last week. — IANS
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