Piyush Goyal calls Nobel laureate Banerjee 'Left-leaning' – Times of India, The Times of India

PUNE: Union ministerPiyush Goyalon Friday dubbed Indian-AmericanAbhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel for Economics, as Left-leaning.
Goyal made the remarks at a media briefing in Pune.
” I congratulate Abhijit Banerjee for winning the Nobel prize. You all know that his thinking is totally Left-leaning, “Goyal said.

“Banerjee supported ‘Nyay’ (poverty alleviation scheme of Congress) and people of India rejected his ideology,” the BJP leader said.
Banerjee recently said the Indian economy is on a shaky ground, adding data currently available does not hold any assurance for the country economic revival anytime soon.

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