Raghuram Rajan joins Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra in Rajasthan
The march is aimed at countering the politics of division espoused by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress has said.
Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan on Wednesday joined Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in his party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Rajasthan.
“The increasing number of people standing up to unite the country against hatred shows that we will be successful,” the Congress said in a tweet sharing a photograph of Gandhi and Rajan.
#BharatJodoYatra में @RahulGandhi जी के साथ कदम मिलाते RBI के पूर्व गवर्नर श्री रघुराम राजन...
— Congress (@INCIndia) December 14, 2022
नफ़रत के खिलाफ देश जोड़ने के लिए खड़े होने वालों की बढ़ती संख्या बताती है कि- हम होंगे कामयाब। pic.twitter.com/MFV6izCpcw
Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank, who fearlessly spoke against the government and its faulty policies, from the economy to banking reforms, has today joined the #BharatJodoYatra 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/ocWFw9NGJ2
— Indian Youth Congress (@IYC) December 14, 2022
The 3,570-km Bharat Jodo Yatra began in Kanyakumari on September 7. The Congress says that the march is aimed at countering the politics of division espoused by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Rajan on many occasions has criticised the economic policies of the Narendra Modi-led Central government.
In August, Rajan had said that India’s economic growth of 7% for the current fiscal year was insufficient for the kind of jobs the country needs.
Rajan had also said that the BJP-led government needs to have a dialogue before formulating decisions like demonetisation and farm laws.