Raghuram Rajan never warned Rahul Gandhi and P Chidambaram about Nirav Modi or PNB Scam

• Bharath Guniganti

In the wake of upcoming general elections India, a lot of fake posts are resurfacing on social media and the following is one such post doing rounds in social media again claiming that Raghuram Rajan had warned Rahul Gandhi and P Chidambaram about Nirav Modi, but they forced him to remain silent and kept approving loan till May 2014.

The archived version of the post can be found here.

Claim: Raghuram Rajan had warned Rahul Gandhi and P Chidambaram about Nirav Modi, but they forced him to remain silent and kept approving loan till May 2014

Fact: Raghuram Rajan clearly denied such claims while mentioning Social media has a habit of attributing complete rubbish to him. Hence the claim is FALSE

The post claiming Raghuram Rajan had warned Rahul Gandhi and P Chidambaram about Nirav Modi, but they forced him to remain silent and kept approving loan till May 2014 first appeared in social in March 2018 and was debunked by Boom Live then. In the wake of upcoming general election 2019, this post is again doing rounds in social media and a simple google search will result in fact checked articles on this claim. You can also notice Raghuram Rajan denying such claims in an interview quoting “Social media has a habit of attributing complete rubbish to me,”

 

Hence, the claim made in the post stands to be FALSE.