That's someone in the govt machinery/ruling party trying to curry favour with the current leadership... Shitty and sad.

Since the current govt has come in, pseudo science has flourished and been tacitly encouraged and scientific temper in general has been thrown out of the window. All this to prop up ultra-nationalistic narratives..

A sampling: 1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46778879

2. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/on-economy-piyush-goyal-says...

There's many more... it's depressing.