Bengaluru, Aug 19 (PTI) : Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday called former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan a politician who is “doing shadow-boxing on somebody’s behalf”.
Vaishnaw’s remark was in reaction to a query on Rajan’s reported statement that India is not manufacturing mobile phones under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme but is only assembling them.
“When good economists become politicians, they lose their economic sense. Raghuram Rajan has become a politician. Now, he should come out in open, fight elections, conduct elections and participate in political activities. Doing shadow-boxing is not something that is good. He is trying to do shadow-boxing on behalf of somebody else,” Vaishnaw asserted.
