Raghuram Rajan is the Aam Aadmi Party’s pick for a Rajya Sabha seat from Delhi
AAP is likely to field a jurist and a social worker – not any of its leaders – for the other two Upper House seats from the capital.
The Aam Aadmi Party is likely to nominate former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan to the Rajya Sabha, PTI reported on Wednesday. The party is awaiting a response from the economist.
AAP does not plan to field any of its leaders for the three Rajya Sabha constituencies in Delhi, a party leader told PTI. The three seats will get vacant in January. A jurist and a social worker are likely to be the other two choices of the party, which has 66 seats in the 70-member Delhi Assembly.
“We have approached him [Rajan], but he has yet to revert to us,” the party leader was quoted as saying.
Rajan’s three-year term as RBI governor ended on September 4, 2016. He said he would not seek a second term, an announcement that came after repeated criticism from Bharatiya Janata Party leaders.
Rajan has been a chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and is known for predicting the 2008 financial crisis three years before it happened.