Subramanian Swamy believes he will be a better FM than Jaitley

September 17, 2016 19:11

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy believes he will be a better Finance Minister than the incumbent Arun Jaitley.

"I am an economist. He is a lawyer. How can he be better than me," Swamy, whose antagonism for Jaitley is open, said at an event on Saturday.

Swamy was replying to a query on whether he will make a better Finance Minister than Jaitley at the India Today Mind Rocks Summit.

Swamy's relentless criticism of former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan was also seen as indirect attack on Jaitley.

The reply came following AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisis comment that inflation would have been in check had Swamy been the finance minister.

"There has been a fight between southern Brahmins and northern Brahmins for long," Swamy later quipped.

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