October 25, 2026 12:21 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Jamia shifts classes online after clash over demand for student union polls; Congress MPs face allegations | Deadly mid-air collision: Four pilots killed as two military aircraft crash in Philippines | ‘Jihad’ calls, Modi assassination remarks: Mumbai Rapido driver arrested over alleged Jaish links | Vegetarian-only kitchen at Keralam Lok Bhavan? Governor's reported order triggers political backlash | ‘Another little Epic Fury’: Trump’s chilling warning to Iran as fresh US strikes loom | Bomb threat email names Amitabh Bachchan’s Jalsa bungalow, Diljit Dosanjh’s concert venue: Reports | ‘Face-offs still continue’: ITBP chief reveals fresh India-China border tensions in Arunachal | Eiffel Tower women staff row: BAPS monk blames ‘miscommunication’, denies delegation's role | ‘Pen, not stones and guns’: RSS-linked group opens its first office in Kashmir Valley under Muslim leader | First human case of Shamonda virus reported in France; WHO confirms death of immunocompromised patient

Modi not best for India: Amartya Sen

| | May 02, 2014, at 05:22 am
New Delhi, May 1 (IBNS): Economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has said he does not believe a government led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s PM nominee Narendra Modi is "the best for India."

"It's not the best for India, (but) I don't know if we are completely doomed. I won't damn a Modi rule at the outset and there are degrees of damnation," Sen told NDTV channel.

He said it was "silly" that some people have said about leaving the country if a Modi government is formed at the Centre.

"You don't migrate because of the wrong government, you vote it out,'' the world-renowned economist said.

He also indicated that he would have preferred the BJP led into the elections by someone other than Modi.

"I have had good relations with other BJP leaders and there are lot of things of interest in the BJP, although the BJP will never be my party," he told the channel.

However, he said, "I am not pro-Congress...the Congress record is not very good."

Describing PM Manmohan Sigh as his friend, Sen said that he "may have liked to do much more, but with Parliament hardly functioning, his role was limited."

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.