Abhijit Banerjee

Congress supporters like Nikhil Alva and Saket Gokhale today shared a Whatsapp forward by a random person to attack OpIndia

"The farmers are essentially acting out of suspicion of the govt's motive", said Nobel Laurate & former Congress advisor Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee stated that many people are still left out of welfare schemes and for that the governments should take the risk of corruption and misappropriation and just make funds available to local authorities so they can distribute money to the people who need it.

Abhijit Banerjee lamented that JNU was a safe place for voicing dissenting opinions when he studied in the university

"The Prime Minister said how the media is trying to trap me into saying anti-Modi things. He has been watching the TV, he has been watching you guys (journalists), and he knows what you are trying to do. So, stop", said Banerjee.

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee was one of the economists who consulted Congress on their ambitious social welfare programme-NYAY

Esther Duflo, who belongs to France also stated how President Macron only congratulated her and did not mention the other two for winning the prestigious award, but hailed PM Modi for being gracious

As soon as the news spread yesterday that Abhijit Banerjee had won the Nobel Prize, an army of trolls descended on an article about the ill-conceived NYAY scheme by Congress, which was led by Rahul Gandhi

The Nobel Prize in Economics is not among the original prizes set up by Alfred Nobel

Economist, Abhijit Banerjee, who advised Congress on the 'free money' NYAY scheme just won a Nobel Prize.