...........However, drawing a similarity between Narendra Modi and Sonia Gandhi on the issue of their ‘common passion’ for gold was possibly the most stupid thing, which both the Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan and Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher learnt within weeks after Modi became the PM. Of the two bureaucrats, Rajan was cleverer. On May 20, RBI issued a new guideline for gold import that allowed few select trading houses, in addition to already permitted banks, to procure the precious metal to ‘boost exports.’ RBI’s export-linkage clause, the biggest irritant before gold merchants outside the higher import duty, remained untouched. While Modi was probably happy with Rajan’s half-action that gave an impression of easing import norms in keeping with the new PM’s wishes to please the country’s largest bullion trading and jewelry export community,...........
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