Maths Didn't Even Help 'Einstein To Discover Gravity,' Says Union Minister Piyush Goyal

The Indian economy is not in the best of shapes, to say the least. And the more our ministers try to reassure us that everything is alright, they are making it look even scarier. The more they speak they are also making us question their knowledge about the subject.?

The latest Modi minister to make himself a laughingstock is Piyush Goyal, who is in charge of the Railways, Commerce and Industries.?

Speaking at an event Goyal said, "Don’t get into the calculations on the television that say for $5 Trillion Economy, the country will have to grow at 12%, today it is at 6%. Don’t get into these maths. Maths never helped Einstein discover Gravity.”

There are something fundamentally wrong with what the minister said.?

It wasn't Einstein who discovered gravity, it was Sir Isaac Newton.

And Newton was a mathematician and physicist.?

Both Newton and Einstein had used mathematics extensively in their works.?

Now, the minister’s statement has gone viral on social media.

Meanwhile the minister has issued a statement saying his comments were taken out of context.

Goyal is the second Modi government minister who has been on the receiving end of some major trolling on social media. Earlier Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was brutally trolled after she blamed millennials who take Ola and Uber for the slowdown in the automobile sector.