Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that for the first time there is popular support for economic reforms in India and the recent election outcomes are indicative of it. “The significant part of our economy today is, that there is perhaps for the first time, a huge amount of popular support as far as economic reforms are concerned,” Jaitley said here at a reception hosted in his honour by Indian Ambassador to the US Navtej Sarna. Governments in the past even when they reformed they were in stages, always felt that there was a political cost involved, he said, adding that as a result after some reforms they would take a pause. “Obviously, people across the world had legitimate grudge as to how long India would take to take some of the steps. I think that phase in now behind us,” he told the audience comprising officials from the Trump administration, diplomats, corporate leaders, think-tank community and Indian-Americans. He said repeated elections indicate that people have become more aspirational and highly supportive of reforms.