It will be idiotic to attack Urjit Patel: Swamy

August 20, 2016 21:41

Urjit Patel's appointment as new RBI Governor appeared to have support of BJP MP Subramanian Swamy who had launched a series of attacks against the outgoing Governor Raghuram Rajan.

In a string of retweets and replies to his Twitter followers, Swamy said it will be utter "idiotic" to think he will attack Patel because he was born in Kenya.

Swamy, who has been extremely critical of Rajan's policy of not lowering interest rate to check inflation, hoped that Patel will not be as "hawkish".

When one of his followers criticised Patel for being a Kenyan national, Swamy replied: "He is not a Kenyan citizen, but was. R3 was born Indian and chose to continue his US green card even though in India from 2007."

R3 is the acronym he uses for referring to Raghuram Rajan whom he had on several occasions attacked for keeping interest rate high and hurting growth.

When someone else said if Patel will be as hawkish as Rajan, Swamy replied: "Don't be an idiot like presstitudes."

His tweets led to his followers proclaiming that he was backing Patel's appointment.

Swamy even retweeted a follower's comment: "Looks like @Swamy39 approves Urijit Patel's appointment."

When a twitterati posted, "I am so dead sure that Swamy is not happy with this appointment", the BJP MP shot back, saying "rubbish".

Swamy also retweeted a follower's tweet that said: "Bye Raghuram Rajan. Pick another hobby. Thanks @Swamy39. Welcome @UrjitPatel_ #TransformingIndia #RBI #AchheDin."

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