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RBI-govt rift: What was the fuss about?

Within 48 hours of Urjit Patel's resignation, Mr Das assumed charge at the RBI

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Urjit Patel

T T Ram Mohan
No, the heavens haven’t fallen. Foreign investors haven’t fled. The rating agencies haven’t downgraded India. The markets haven’t collapsed — on the contrary, the Sensex has gained nearly 3 per cent since the new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor was appointed and the yield on 10-year government bonds has fallen. This, despite the political uncertainty created by the results of state elections.

For more than a month preceding the appointment of Shaktikanta Das as RBI governor, media commentators and experts had created a sense of crisis, if not a looming national disaster, over the differences between the government and the
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