It is worrying that scholars can be now "influenced" and become "imprisoned" by their own likes and dislikes rather than comment on the basis of facts, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, taking a swipe at Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.
During a conversation organised by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government on Tuesday, Sitharaman was asked by Harvard Professor Lawrence Summers that "number of people in our community", notably economist Sen has expressed rather strong reservations about the BJP government.
There are not going to be any deficiencies that may lead to any shortfall of supply. So that takes care of India's power situation. We are now a power surplus country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
Amid reports of the ongoing coal shortage in the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed that there is no shortage and termed these as “absolutely baseless”, saying India is a power surplus country.
Nirmala Sitharaman said that Power Minister R K Singh went on record just two days ago when he said absolutely baseless information is floating around.