After Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sparked outrage in Netizens for her anti millennials sentiments, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has now tapped the same emotion and is going viral for his latest remarks.
At a meeting for the Board of Trade, the BJP minister addressing a question on how India is supposed to become a $5-trillion economy at the current rate defended the percentage the economy is supposed to grow at and said,
“Don’t get into the calculations that you see on television,” Goyal is heard saying in the viral video. “If you look at a $5 trillion-economy, the country will have to grow at 12%, today its growing at 6%-7%, don’t get into those maths,” he adds.
But this wasn’t all. Goyal goofed up and continued, “…Maths never helped Einstein discover gravity.”
Twitter soon picked up on the gaffe. But just in case you’re wondering gravity was discovered by Issac Newton.
The video soon went viral leading #Einstein and #Newton to trend on Twitter India.
Brilliant! Maths didn’t help Einstein discover gravity….because he didn’t. Newton did. And obeying gravity, the economy is free falling pic.twitter.com/u1HAFICXS4
— Ajay Kamath (@ajay43) September 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/Bhayankur/status/1172069863465992192
Finance Minister in-waiting says “Einstein discovered gravity”. Mind you – NOT Newton.
Then he says he did so without math.
He’s wrong.
In fact, Modi ji was the one who discovered gravity when he found the extra 2ab in a+b square.
— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) September 12, 2019
Mr @PiyushGoyal – I don't think you have ever studied science but being an Engineer I feel it is my moral duty to correct you
– Einstein didn't discover Gravity, Newton did.
Get your basics right Mr Goyal, that would help even in the Economy. pic.twitter.com/OPEZRjB4op
— Ankit Lal 🏹 (@AnkitLal) September 12, 2019
#Einstein is trending higher than #Newton 🙁 #gravity
— Gargi Rawat (@GargiRawat) September 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/FuschiaScribe/status/1172070269030027265
Why should Nirmala have all the fun? Piyush Goyal has just delivered a blockbuster dialogue
"Don't get into calculations about the economy. Don't get into maths. Maths never helped Einstein discover Gravity" 🙄
Millennials and Maths are the problem. Not Modi Govt. Understood? pic.twitter.com/JCoCIbdoxp
— Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) September 12, 2019
