BJP distances from Swamy’s attack on Raghuram Rajan

New Delhi: Distancing self from the statement of Subramanian Swamy on Reserver Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah said the newly nominated Rajya Sabha MP was not articulating the view of the outfit in office.

"I speak on party stand,” Shah told journalists on the query, whether or not, the MP was reflecting the party stand on Rajan.

• He was talking to journalists on Wednesday evening.
• Swamy had accused Rajan of hurting growth by keeping interest rates high.
• The governor's three-year term runs out in early September.
• Finance minister Arun Jaitley has dodged questions about the government's response to Swamy's tirade against Rajan.