SHILLONG: Governor Tathagata Roy, who has courted controversy in the past with his comments, has criticised Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee for conceptualising the NYAY scheme of the Congress.
At the same time Roy in his tweets said he was proud of the achievements of Banerjee, who along with his French-American wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, another economist, has won the coveted prize for the ‘experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’.
“I personally believe NYAY was a crazy and harebrained scheme. Even the progenitor of that scheme isn’t mentioning it any more. Thankfully Banerjee and Duflo did not get the prize for NYAY. I am told he got it for some good experimental work, not anything fundamental,” Roy said in a tweet He followed it with another tweet saying, “I had never heard of Abhijit Banerjee before. But then, I am not an economist. It is merely his Indian blood that gave me a feeling of pride. Just as I felt proud of Hargobind Khorana, S.Chandrasekhar or V.Ramakrishnan. After all, even Zionist Jews are proud of Karl Marx!
It may be mentioned that NYAY or Nyuntam Aay Yojana is a minimum income guarantee scheme of the Congress and was conceptualised before the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, and made a prominent election plank.
