Who will be the next RBI Governor? Adhia, Das among names doing the rounds

Speculation is swirling in India’s local media on who will be the next central bank governor after Urjit Patel’s abrupt exit on Monday.

There’s no obvious successor yet, and given the cloud under which Patel left -- amid a public fight with the government over the Reserve Bank of India’s autonomy -- investors are naturally anxious about who will take the helm.

The first step is for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to appoint an interim governor, as has been the practice in the past, with that post likely to go to N. S. Vishwanathan, currently the most senior of the four deputies