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NEW DELHI: Former main economical advisor Ashok Lahiri is acceptable to beryllium named the caller vice-chairman of Niti Aayog, replacing Suman Bery. Gobardhan Das, the manager of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, is to beryllium nominated arsenic a subordinate of the govt’s premier deliberation tank.
Lahiri is presently a BJP MLA from Balurghat, but is not contesting the 2026 assembly polls. Das, a erstwhile JNU professor, had contested from Purbasthali Uttar constituency successful the 2021 authorities polls arsenic a BJP candidate. The 2 appointments travel amid polls successful West Bengal with the 2nd circular of voting connected Wednesday and volition beryllium seen arsenic an overture to the electorate.
Appointments seen arsenic portion of long-awaited Niti revamp
Significantly, Das is simply a Dalit and had allegedly faced attacks from TMC cadres successful the unit that followed the 2021 elections successful Bengal.The appointments are seen arsenic portion of a long-awaited overhaul of Niti Aayog, wherever Bery, a astonishment pick, has been astatine the helm for 4 years. On respective occasions, the Modi medication was seen to person bypassed Bery and dealt straight with the members oregon the CEO.Lahiri volition bring his grooming arsenic an economist and a policymaker to Niti Aayog, which has a part-time CEO aft BVR Subrahmanyam’s exit past month. Lahiri is simply a vocation economist who taught astatine Delhi School of Economics and worked astatine the World Bank and IMF earlier returning to the concern ministry successful the precocious 1990s. He past went connected to caput the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and was the main economical advisor and subsequently a subordinate of the 15th Finance Commission.
He is seen arsenic among the pioneers successful the filed psephologist and co-authored ‘India Decides’ that mapped elections from 1952 to 1989.
