Congress chief Rahul Gandhi with former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan throughout the occasion’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Sawai Madhopur district on December 14.
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Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan joined Congress chief Rahul Gandhi throughout the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Rajasthan on December 14.
Videos on social media confirmed Mr. Rajan and the previous Congress chief having a dialogue whereas marching because the Congress’ yatra resumed from Bhadoti of Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan this morning.
Sharing an image of the 2, the Congress tweeted in Hindi: “Shri Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of RBI, with @RahulGandhi ji… The increasing number of people standing up to unite the country against hatred shows that we will be successful.”
Mr. Rajan, a vocal critic of demonetisation and different financial insurance policies, had blamed the Narendra Modi-led authorities’s “political and social agenda for the economic slowdown”.
He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, he was the Chief Economist and Director of Research on the International Monetary Fund.
Responding to the previous RBI governor’s participation, BJP leader Amit Malviya mentioned Mr. Rajan “fancies himself as the next Manmohan Singh.”
The Bharat Jodo yatra will mark 100 days on December 16.
The yatra began from Kanniyakumari on September 7 and has to date lined Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. It will conclude in Jammu and Kashmir in early February 2023.
Rajasthan is the one Congress-ruled state the yatra has entered and can cowl about 500 km over 17 days earlier than getting into Haryana on December 21.
(With inputs from PTI)