Modi government is known to use religion as a tool to achieve political goals but its usage of religion as a means to achieve economic goal is something new.

Political commentators, journalists and even some in BJP were taken aback when they found Economic Survey-2019 using verses from Bible, Quran and Hindu scriptures to urge people to repay their loans.

Written by Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian and tabled by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday in Parliament, Economic Survey -2019, termed religious verses as “doctrine of pious obligation”.