Defeat in Delhi will not slow down economic reforms: Jaitley

February 12, 2015 15:33

The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Delhi assembly elections will not slow down the pace of economic reforms, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asserted today. In his first comments after the near-whitewash of his party in the Delhi polls, he said the government was determined to go ahead on the path of economic reforms. "The fact that four (state assembly) elections have been won and one has not been won is absolutely no ground for believing that there will be any slowdown on the path which we have undertaken,' he said. Jaitley's comments assume significance against the backdrop of experts raising questions whether the government would resort to populism in the wake of electoral reverse.

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