No real fear of Muslim takeover in India: Abhijit Banerjee 

The talks from the “fringes of the ruling party” about the demographics of the Muslim population is just a way to ‘demonize’ a community, Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee said here, asserting that there is no real fear of Muslim takeover in India. “India and the US are similar in one very important way. The minorities are actually minorities. They are not anywhere close to being dominant,” Banerjee said at the epilogue session of the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet on Monday evening. “So the sense that we need to be mindful of the minorities - this talk about what you hear at least from the fringes of the ruling party about the demographics of the Muslim population - this is really just ways to demonize a population,” he said during the session, that centered around the book ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’, which the eminent economist has co-authored with fellow Nobel laureate and his wife Esther Duflo. (IANS)

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