Recently, he had stated that India is yet to realise the potential of mobile phones and Indians with mobile phones are no more than monkeys with new toys.
Putting the onus of guilt on the middle class for worrying about taxes, Pitroda said, "How can you see poor people around you and worry that somebody might take a 10 paisa from you. That is not India."
In an apparent reference to Rahul Gandhi, Jaitley asserted that if one's mentor(Sam Pitroda) is like this, we can understand how incompetent and disastrous his protege would be for the nation.