Reasonable apprehension

• Seemingly Finance Minister and financial expert Dr TM Thomas Isaac's 'jack fruit economics ' has few takers in Kerala including his Cabinet Chief Pinarayi Vijayan. That is why Pinarayi appointed another financial expert Gita Gopinath from Harward University. Gita's appointment is without remuneration and she will not visit Kerala and never get involved in Kerala policy decisions. Then, what for this exercise? Pinarayi is unnecessarily making confusion among his own men.

  The small state of Kerala, in fact , does not need a Harvard economist advocating liberalisation policy as the Financial advisor to the Chief Minister of Kerala. Her attitude of market economy and finance is unsuitable to Marxist ideology. And hence apprehension of the Pinarayi detractors about her appointment is reasonable.

  K A Solaman