India
oi-Vicky Nanjappa
New Delhi, Mar 15: External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar hit out at western human rights and democracy institutions that downgraded India in democracy rankings. He described these bodies as hypocrites.
Speaking at the India Today conclave, Jaishankar said that the downgrade reflected the frustration of those in the West, who has arrogated unto themselves the right to pass verdicts and are feeling frustrated that the current dispensation in India does not crave testimonials from them.
“It is hypocrisy. We have a set of self-appointed custodians of the world who find it very difficult to stomach that somebody in India is not looking for their approval, is not willing to play the game they want to play. So they invent their rules, their parameters, pass their judgments and make it look as if it is some kind of global exercise,” Jaishankar said.
