JNU-Trained Nirmala Sitharaman Wrong Person for Commerce: Jagdish Bhagwati

Eminent economist Jagdish Bhagwati has lashed out at Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman saying she is the wrong person for the job. Speaking to NDTV in New York, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit, he said, "she is a perfectly respectable person but on the other hand, her training in trade is from JNU which is really a Nehru university, which is a fine campus for a variety of things but on trade, it is a locus classicus of all the anti-trade people." Professor Bhagwati also hit out at India’s protectionist approach to trade saying there is no one in authority, "a bunch of bureaucrats who are well trained or the minister herself", who are going to say that "protectionism is generally not a good idea".