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When Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee was Jailed in Tihar for 'Gheraoing' JNU Vice Chancellor
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Banerjee says that while they had 'gheraoed' the VC, police sent by the then Congress government, stormed into the VC's house and arrested him along with hundreds of others.
New Delhi: Abhijit Banerjee, one of the recipients of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, has spent time in Delhi's Tihar jail for 'gheraoing' the then vice-chancellor of the university.
Banerjee, who along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won this prestigious award for the contribution made towards fighting global poverty, wrote in a piece published over three years ago about how he was 'beaten' by police.
Banerjee finished his education in 1983, just a year before the current finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman finished hers.
While Banerjee did his MA in Economics from the central university, Sitharaman completed her M.