london reserve banks outgoing governor raghuram rajan whose outspoken views have often been seen as being critical of the government feels whatever he will say on prime minister narendra modi will be problematicrajan whose tenure at rbi has been marked with several controversies triggered by his comments on issues ranging from tolerance debate to the governments flagship programme make in india was asked to describe modi in a televised rapidfire like interview with bbci think i will pass on that question whatever answer i give will be problematic so i will just pass said the onleave professor of finance at chicago university who will return to academia after end of his threeyear term at rbi on september 4after his decision to return back to academia there have been voices suggesting that his candid public speeches were one of the aspects which made the government uncomfortable about reappointing rajan for another termsome of the controversial speeches made by him include the one where he quoted american political philosopher francis fukuyama to question whether strong governments can really help a country or in defence of tolerance in the middle of a debate started by the killing of a muslim man over suspicion of storing beef or questioning the premise of the highoctane make in india campaignrajan a former imf chief economist also ruled out joining politicsi think that is one place where my wife overrides everything and her answer is no he said on joining politicsasked how he feels about being on the list of indias most desirable men the 53yearold governor quipped i wish they had done it when i was 25rajan described himself as a boring guy and said he being described as rockstar banker is an overblown statementin an earlier tv interview rajan had said he was open to staying a bit longer at rbi to complete the unfinished work of bank cleanup but was perfectly happy to goon personal attacks on him in recent months he had said some of these recent attacks were ad hominem that is imputing sort of motives alleging things completely without any basis he added that he put them aside and did not pay any attention to themrajan who announced in june that he would not serve another term at rbi said the dialogue with the government did not reach a stage where he could have agreed to stay onin recent months rajan has faced a slew of personal attacks from bjp mp subramanian swamy who had alleged that the former imf chief economist was mentally not fully indian and sent confidential and sensitive financial information abroadrajan has also faced criticism by some others for his controversial remarks on various occasions at a select media interaction earlier this week after presenting his last monetary policy he strongly defended his views saying they were perfectly legitimate ones and within the remit of a central bank headin none of those speeches that i have made has there been an explicit criticism or an implicit