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SYDNEY: India’s foreign minister on Saturday hit out at “scaremongering” critics who claim the country’s democracy is being corroded, singling out billionaire George Soros – a popular target for right-wing ire.

At an event in Sydney, S. Jaishankar rejected accusations that multiple raids on the BBC’s India offices showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government were veering toward authoritarianism.

Jaishankar defended the prime minister, painting detractors as “scaremongering”, holding an antiquated “Euro-Atlantic view” of democracy and failing to respect the Indian people’s democratic choice.

“There are still people in the world who believe that their definition, their preferences, their views must override everything else,” he said.

Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai just weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary on Modi’s actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002.

Jaishankar singled out philanthropist Soros, who recently highlighted Modi’s close ties with fraud-accused businesses run by ally Gautam Adani and suggested that while India was a democracy, Modi “is no democrat”.

BBC tax raids put India press freedom in spotlight

Jaishankar denounced the 92-year-old Hungarian-born financier as “old, rich opinionated and dangerous” and someone who “still thinks that his views should determine how the entire world works.”

“He actually thinks that it doesn’t matter that this is a country of 1.4 billion people – we are almost that – whose voters decide how the country should run.”

Soros has long funded projects promoting transparency and democracy, making him the subject of countless conspiracy theories and politically motivated attacks.

“People like him 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,” Jaishankar said.

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SAMIR SARDANA Feb 18, 2023 06:50pm
"whose voters decide how the country should run" JAI SHANKAR WANTS "INDIANS" TO RUN THE NATION WHICH IS Y THEY VOTED THE SON OF A DISHWASHER CHAIWALA,AS PM.AN ILLITERATE AND A MASS MURDERER. THESE CLOWNS WHO WERE PROMISED 20000 USD EACH -STILL ARE IN THE MASS HYPNOTIC ILLUSION - INDUCED BY THE PANWARI BANIA (GUPTA MEESHTAN BHANDAR/AGARWAL SWEEETS CORNER....) MEDIA TRIBES OF CHAIWALA JAISHANKAR CANNOT SEE THE IMPENDING COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF HINDOOSTHAN - WHICH WAS INEVITABLE - AND HAS BEEN ACCELERATED BY CHAIWALA. ONCE A BABOO,ALWAYS A BABOO Y THE LOVE FOR BBC ? WHO TAIGHT INDIANS HOW TO USE A TOILET AND TOLET PAPER AND ENGLISH, AND HOW TO EAT WITH A SPOONA/FORK AND PLATE ? SAMIR SARDANA WERE IT NOT FOR THE BRITS , INDIANS WOULD STILL BE SWINGING FROM TREES, IN LANGOTS, AND EATING RATS
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TimeToMovveOn Feb 18, 2023 07:35pm
@SAMIR SARDANA, Chill bro. India can take care of itself. When you write "WERE IT NOT FOR THE BRITS , INDIANS WOULD STILL BE.." You think you are Arab? 76 years ago, you are part of the same cloth. If we would be eating rats, so would you be. Yours and ours shared history, pre-Brits, is richer. Be proud.
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SAMIR SARDANA Feb 18, 2023 07:45pm
Y THE HATE FOR THE BRITS ? It was the Brits who did the following “taught English” to the Hindoo Iaid down the “education,railways, administrative and bureaucractic processes”, for the Hindoo "planned,structured and executed the army and airforce”, for these Hindoo “brought modern science” to these Hindoo “institutionalised the Martial Race Theory”,in the Military “educated Ambedkar, who wrote the constitution” for the Hindoo “educated and trained Gandhi” and “built him into a Global Icon and Brand” – else the Hindoo /Africans, would have devoured Gandhi,a long time ago taught the Hindoo “how to eat with a spoon and a fork ” It is the Whiteman from Communist Russia – who “gifted all the space and military technology”, to the Hindoo and built the infrastructure for the Hindoo It was a Whiteman ,”Max Mueller”who introduced the Hindoo to the world TODAY IN 2023,THE INDIANS ARE THE LACKEYS AND LAPDOGS OF THE AMERICANS !
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TimeToMovveOn Feb 18, 2023 09:57pm
@SAMIR SARDANA, "LACKEYS AND LAPDOGS OF THE AMERICANS !" Sir, yes agreed without a doubt. But then, what is wrong with that? US is the most powerful in the world and we are happy that they give us technology, knowledge, and jobs. Apple is going to make 1/4 iPhones in Chennai my hometown. Imagine everyone including those in Pakistan holding a Made in India iPhone. It is great marketing. Also, US has stalled the Kashmir issue in the UN. Regarding Brits, they have done the biggest favor for India. Without the Brits there would have been no India, no english, no civil administration. We dont hate they brits, we just want them to mind their own business now...now that we have surpased them in economy, and gave them an order to make 500 Rolls Royce engines for Air India. If the Brits keep shouting, we can move over to GE engines.
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SAMIR SARDANA Feb 18, 2023 11:22pm
@TimeToMovveOn, SO YOU AGREE THAT GEOGRAPHY,NATION OR GEO POLITICAK ENTITY CALLED INDIA EVER EXISTED ! ROLLS ROYCE ORDERS ARE PART OF THE AIRBUS DEAL, AND ROLLS ROYCE ALREADY HAS A TIE UP WITH TAS OF TATA AND AIR INDIA = TATA TO THINK THAT A PIDDLY ORDER CAN BUY BRIT CONSCIENCE AND BBC = CLASSICAL HINDOO ERROR FROM THE TIMES OF THE INVASION,OF THE HUNS,SAKAS,SCYTHIANS,GREEKS,MONGOLS,PERSIANS...... ------------------- AND SO, IT IS SETTLED THAT INDIA IS NOW AN AMERICAN LAPDOG AND LACKEY ALL AMERICAN LAPDOGS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED -IT IS HISTORY ! THE LAPDOGS OVER STEP AND BASK IN THE UMBRELLA OF THE AMERICANS,WHICH HAS AN EXPIRY DATE BY PUNTING ON THE US,CHAIWALA HAS STARTED THE DRIFT FROM RUSSIA AND INEVITABLE PLUNDER BY PRC AND PAKISTAN RE APPLE - IT IS SUPPLY CHAIN ECONOMICS ! TOMORROW EVEN FORD MAY MAKE CARS IN INDIA (FOR EXPORTS) ! IT IS ALL ABOUT COST AND MARKET PORTUGAL COLONISED GOA, BUT MAHARASHTRA GDP IS MORE THAN PORTUGAL TODAY ! WHAT DOES IT PROVE ?
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