Needless talk

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar termed billionaire investor George Soros as an old, rich opinionated person who still thinks that his views should determine how the entire world works. Jaishankar said, ‘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.”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 said. Soros had in his remarks at the Munich Security Conference this Thursday said, 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.