Raghuram Rajan under fire for his remarks on 'don't care about India being a superpower'

Days after Raghuram Rajan's criticised India's PLI scheme for mobile phones, the former RBI governor is once again facing a lot of backlash about his comments on India becoming a superpower.

At an event, Rajan was asked whether he could see himself become the Finance Minister or Prime Minister of the country.

While answering, Rajan expressed his indifference towards India being a superpower.

He said it was more important to fulfil the vision of Mahatma Gandhi.

"I don't care about India being a superpower, to me that's not the point. It's about what the father of the nation wanted, which means making every Indian happy," he said.

This has led to sharp criticism of Rajan. Netizens said that his views were extreme and disregarded the contributions made by other leaders.

This is not the first time that Rajan's statements have led to his criticism.

Earlier, in a paper titled "Has India really become a mobile manufacturing giant?" Rajan had raised concerns about the Production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, accompanied by questions over India's rising mobile phone exports.