Parakala Prabhakar Modi – During an interview with journalist Karna Thapar, economist Parakala Prabhakar, who is the husband of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, made comments that have generated controversy.
Prabhakar stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is lacking in competence in the area of economics, and that he has the ability to stoke communal and divisive sentiments that already exist in the Indian social psyche. Prabhakar is the author of ‘The Crooked Timber of New India’.