New Delhi: India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar hit out at billionaire George Soros following his remarks on Prime Minister Modi over Adani Group crisis.
Jaishankar said the 92-year-old business man thinks his views should determine how the entire world works.
The foreign minister’s reaction to Soros comes a day after union minister Smriti Irani vehemently criticised Soros.
"Mr Soros is an old, rich opinionated person sitting in New York who still thinks that his views should determine how the entire world works...such people actually invest resources in shaping narratives," Jaishanker reportedly said.
He was sharing a session of the Raisina@Sydney Dialogue with Australian Minister Chris Brown when he singled out the Hungarian-American businessman, accoriding to NDTV.
People like Soros, Jaishankar said, term an election good if the outcome is in line with their desire otherwise they will call it a flawed democracy.
"And the beauty is that all this is done under the pretence of advocacy of open society," the minister said.
Alongside calling PM Modi ‘no democrat’, Soros earlier alleged that ‘inciting violence against Muslims was an important factor in his meteoric rise".
Jaishankar said India went through colonialism and knows only too well the dangers of outside interference.
Addressing that aspects that undermine democracy, Jaishankar reminded Soros that India is country of 1.4 billion people and its voters decide how to run the country.
Jaishankar said Soros does not consider PM Modi as a democrat but acknowledges that India is a democratic country.
Soros, who established the Open Society Foundations to 'promote democratic governance', received strong reactions from India over his comments on PM Modi.
Smriti Irani urged every Indian to give a fitting reply to Soros while calling upon Indians to fight ‘foreign powers who try to intervene in India's democratic processes'.
George Soros said at the 2023 Munich Security Conference on Thursday that PM Modi will be weakened by the business troubles of Gautam Adani.