Jaishankar EAM Jaishankar tears into billionaire investor Soros' remarks, says he is 'old, opinionated and dangerous'
New Delhi/UNI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday tore into billionaire investor George Soros’ remarks criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming the 92-year-old US philanthropist as "an old, rich, opinionated and dangerous" person who doesn’t care about the choice of the 1.4 billion people of India who decide how the country should run.
Responding to a question at the Raisina@Sydney Dialogue in Sydney, Jaishankar said that people like Soros "think an election is good if the person we want to see wins; if the election throws up a different outcome, then we actually will say it’s a flawed democracy."
He said, "But you have to understand what this actually means..I could take the view that the individual in question, Mr Soros, is an old rich, opinionated person, sitting in New York, who still thinks that his views determine how the entire world works.
"Now, if I could still stop at old, rich and opinionated, I could put it away. But he’s old, rich, opinionated and dangerous."
"You know, because what happens is when such people, and such views and such organisations, they actually invest resources in shaping narratives…"
Speaking at the Munich Conference, Geoge Soros, 92, said that Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani's recent troubles in the stock market would spur “democratic revival in India” and Prime Minister Modi will “have to answer questions”.
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