'Not my proudest moment': When Raghuram Rajan contested election, shut IIT-Delhi for a day

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Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, who did BTech from the prestigious IIT-Delhi, on Saturday opened up about his engineering days and shared some lesser-known facts..

During an interview with the India Today Group's Lallantop, the renowned economist said he had once contested an election in the premier engineering college...

"Election in IIT does not happen on the party basis, it happens on an individual basis," Rajan said when asked to shed some light on what had happened..

When asked about his views on protests because they sometimes hamper economic activity, Rajan was clear that "the ability to protest has to be protected"..

In another event, Rajan on Saturday said that India will remain a lower-middle country if the potential growth rate remains at 6 per cent annually without any rise in population by 2047..