S Jaishankar slams George Soros, calls him ‘old, rich, dangerous’

Australia, February 18: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday termed billionaire investor George Soros as an "old, rich opinionated person" who still thinks that his views should determine how the entire world works.

Addressing the session at Sydney Dialogue, Jaishankar stated that, “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."

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"People like him think an election is good if the person they want to see, wins and if the election throws up a different outcome then they will say it is a flawed democracy and the beauty is that all this is done under the pretence of advocacy of open society," the external affairs minister added. 

Notably, Soros made remarks about Adani controversy and stated that Adani is accused of stock manipulation and his stock collapsed like a house of cards. Modi is silent on the subject, but he will have to answer questions from foreign investors and in Parliament.

Terming Modi and Adani as "close allies," whose "fate is intertwined", the 92-year-old billionaire investor said, "This will significantly weaken Modi's stranglehold on India's federal government and open the door to push for much-needed institutional reforms." "I may be naive, but I expect a democratic revival in India," Soros said in his remarks delivered at the 2023 Munich Security Conference.   

Meanwhile, Jaishankar hit out at Soros and stated that, "If you do this kind of scaremongering...millions of people will be deprived of citizenship. It actually does real damage to the societal fabric because somebody out there believes you. You create that kind of fear psychosis."

BJP also lashed out at Soros comments.    

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani on Friday slammed Soros said that the man who broke the Bank of England and a man, who is designated as an economic war criminal, has now expressed his desire to break the Indian democracy.

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She added that Soros wants a government that is pliable to his needs for making his nefarious plans successful.