Dr Subramanian Swamy

Dr Subramanian Swamy is an economist with a PhD from Harvard University. He worked with Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets and jointly published research with Nobel Laureate, Paul A. Samuelson. For several years, he taught graduate-level courses at Harvard University. He returned to India to be Professor of Economics at IIT, Delhi, but his scathing criticism of socialism and communism as being inapplicable in a democracy, invoked the ire of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; and his professorship was terminated in 1973. However, in 1991, a Delhi court held the termination as null and void. But he resigned from this post after resuming his Chair for a day in order to participate full time in politics. Dr Swamy has been elected six times to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, three times each, respectively. As a Cabinet Minister twice in 1990–91 and 1994–96, he helped Prime Minister(s) Chandra Shekhar and Narasimha Rao to launch economic reforms. He is well versed in law and has successfully argued a large number of public interest litigations in the apex court and in several high courts, resulting in the prosecution of certain notable public figures, and for restoring Hindu temples and historical sites. His most recent book, Reset, published in 2019, about regaining India’s economic legacy, is a national bestseller.