Both Patel and Das, to be sure, had assumed office only after the RBI adopted flexible inflation targeting with a midpoint goal as its formal monetary policy objective. Raghuram Rajan, who preceded Patel, had raised rates in his first policy action after taking over as he had to deal with a weak external sector and drying capital inflows, among others.
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