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Home / News / Business News / Nirmala Sitharaman's husband criticizes Modi government over economic slowdown
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    Nirmala Sitharaman's husband criticizes Modi government over economic slowdown

    Siddhant Pandey
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    Last updated on Oct 14, 2019, 07:15 pm
    Nirmala Sitharaman's husband criticizes Modi government over economic slowdown
  • On Monday, noted political economist and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's husband Parakala Prabhakar said that the government is in denial about the economic slowdown in India.

    Prabhakar said that the Narendra Modi-led government is yet to show signs of a strategic vision to deal with the challenge.

    The economist also suggested that the Centre should adopt the PV Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh economic model.

  • In this article
    Prabhakar says there's 'anxiety' over economic slowdown BJP's economic ideology limited to critiquing Nehruvian model: Prabhakar Prabhakar said Rao-Singh economic model 'remains unchallenged' 'Critique of Nehruvian framework a political assault, not economic critique' Prabhakar advised BJP to embrace Rao-Singh model Meanwhile, Finance Minister defended the government against husband
  • Economic slowdown

    Prabhakar says there's 'anxiety' over economic slowdown

    Prabhakar says there's 'anxiety' over economic slowdown
  • Writing for a column in The Hindu, Prabhakar goes off accusing the Modi government of being in denial while there is "anxiety all over."

    Prabhakar then went on to list how urban consumption is dipping with rural consumption slowing down twice as fast.

    He also drew attention to GDP growth, which is at a six-year low, and the unemployment rate hitting a 45-year high.

  • Quote

    BJP's economic ideology limited to critiquing Nehruvian model: Prabhakar

  • Prabhakar wrote, "The [BJP's] economic ideology and its articulation were limited to mainly critiquing the Nehruvian model from the fringes of the political spectrum."

    He added, "The BJP's flirting with Gandhian socialism didn't last for more than a few months after its founding. In economic policy, the party mainly adopted 'Neti Neti' (Not this, Not this), without articulating what was its own 'Niti' (policy)."

  • Rao-Singh model

    Prabhakar said Rao-Singh economic model 'remains unchallenged'

    Prabhakar said Rao-Singh economic model 'remains unchallenged'
  • Prabhakar argued that the Modi government should adopt the Rao-Singh economic model which "remains unchallenged even today."

    Notably, PV Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister of India from 1991-1996 and Manmohan Singh served as Finance Minister in his Cabinet.

    Prabhakar said that every political party that formed the government since has followed the "path-breaking repositioning" ushered in by their economic model.

  • Quote

    'Critique of Nehruvian framework a political assault, not economic critique'

  • Further, Prabhakar wrote, "Yet the BJP continues to attack the Nehruvian economic framework. The party think tank fails to realize that the attack remains more a political assault and can never graduate to an economic critique."

    He added, "The agenda to construct an alternative to it or co-opt the one that was constructed did not become an urgent need."

  • Quote

    Prabhakar advised BJP to embrace Rao-Singh model

  • Prabhakar advised, "A full-fledged embrace and an aggressive pursuit of [the Rao-Singh model] even now could provide the BJP and the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi a lodestar to steer the economy out of the choppy waters it is in at present."

  • FM's response

    Meanwhile, Finance Minister defended the government against husband

    Meanwhile, Finance Minister defended the government against husband
  • Responding to her husband's opinion piece, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reportedly defended the Modi government saying, "If you talk of deep reforms this government has taken many such steps."

    Sitharaman then went on to list the government's measures such as Goods and Services Tax, Aadhaar linking, the PM Ujjwala Yojana, and rural electrification to support her argument.

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