People of India rejected Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee's ideology: Piyush Goyal

Banerjee had recently said the Indian economy is on a shaky ground

US-MIT'S-ABHIJIT-BANERJEE-AND-ESTHER-DUFLO-AND-HARVARD'S-MICHAEL Abhijit Banerjee | AFP

Union minister Piyush Goyal on Friday dubbed Indian-American Abhijit 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's economic revival anytime soon.