Regional/ International Affairs
By N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal)
Biratnagar: The Hungarian-American national George Soros must not be a new name for those who keep an eye on Indian politics under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) now controlled by Indian Prime Minister Modi.
The American investor billionaire George Soros came to prominence in this part of the world when Soros made some lengthy but shooting comments on Indian Prime Minister Modi and his notorious cabal of Indian businessmen like, for example, Gautam Adani and the likes, revealing that PM Modi’s undesirable financial nexus with Adani may, time permitting, immensely harm the Indian nation and its nationals.
Soros confirmed that PM Modi and Gautam Adani have close intimacy and that Adani exploited his connections with PM Modi beginning in Gujrat.
Both PM Modi and Adani hail from Gujarat.
Soros, to recall, had accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of crony capitalism after claiming that the latter has a good relationship with Indian businessman Gautam Adani.”
More so, he is dead against the type of nationalist like PM Modi, who prefers to turn the entire country on Hindutva lines. India is currently a secular State.
Soros in his early days in Hungary was so terrified of Adolph Hitler’s terror at the time of the Second World War that the innocent Soros decided to flee to America, and since then he has been in America.
It is perhaps this inner pain of fleeing from his native country, that George Soros appears to have some sort of distaste against radical nationalism.
Soros claims that the “biggest and most frightening setback” was in India, as he, as stated earlier, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “creating a Hindu nationalist state.”
Most strikingly, Modi, as is the rumor, wants neighboring Nepal to restore its previous Hindu identity. This does mean that Soros is against creating India as a Hindu state from a secular one.
In a way, Soros appears against the Hindu and the Hindu religion.
Or else why is he against the Hindu state?
However, it could be that Soros may not have an issue with Hindu and Hinduism but instead, he is against the radicalization of the religion.
Needless to say, Soros also has abundant information on PM Modi that the latter is highly Islamophobic and that his hatred against the minority Muslims is no longer a secret.
While making a meaningful speech ahead of the Munich Security Conference, in Germany, in early February this year, George Soros even told the gathering that “Modi and business magnate Adani are close allies. Their fate is intertwined,” Soros said.
Soros made these allegations while talking at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany.
More scathing remarks Soros made on PM Modi wherein he stated that the Indian Prime Minister is complicit in the supposed ‘misdealing’ of the Adani Group.
Soros added, “Modi is silent on the subject, but he will have to answer questions from foreign investors and in the Indian parliament.”
I expect a democratic revival in India…I could be foolish, but I think democracy will flourish again”, is what Soros predicted in India.
Is he hinting Rahul Gandhi’s surprising victory in the approaching election?
Sources say that Rahul Gandhi during his fresh trip to the US may have met George Soros!
Soros perhaps also is in the knowledge of how the Indian PM pressured the Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe to award power-energy projects to Gautam Adani in Sri Lanka.
By the same token, Soros must have copious information about PM Modi’s storming of the internal affairs of the Archipelago, the Maldives, on how the Maldivian internal politics is being unduly influenced by PM Modi in Male.
To recall, the Maldivians at times come out in the streets of Male shouting slogans “Indian Military Go Out” and the likes.
If so, let’s presume that billionaire George Soros also knows the details of how the North Eastern States of India, Manipur, Tripura, Nagaland, and Assam were burning for long and PM Modi was deliberately absent from India and left for a foreign tour to France and earlier to the United States.
To the extent that two Manipuri women were paraded naked in the streets of Imphal and neither PM Modi nor his administration in Delhi spoke on the issue that attracted international attention.
Albeit, the French people protested the violence in India while PM Modi was in Paris finalizing Rafael’s deals with President Emanuel Macron.
The negative reverberations of Manipur violence approached Haryana, close to New Delhi which saw untold suffering of the minority Muslims in the Haryana streets itself.
Hindu supremacist groups instructed the local businessmen to dismiss from jobs the Muslims they may have employed in their business enterprises, so wrote the Swedish Professor Ashok Swain a fortnight ago.
If it is so then let’s just guess as to how many times PM Modi may have threatened India-elevated Nepali leaders to award hydropower projects to Indians and the Indian companies.
The fact is that the entire water resources of Nepal have already been forcefully captured by Indian companies. Even some projects that were legally awarded to Chinese firms were cancelled only to be awarded to Indian enterprises.
Indian pressure politics on Nepal has remained a constant in Nepal-India bilateral relations since the day of Indian independence in 1947.
Now back to the point:
International media outlets provide fresh indications that the US billionaire George Soros is soon to explode on PM Modi and the entire Indian regime once again.
However, when is that opportune moment nobody knows so far.
George Soros is hunting PM Modi as his lieutenants ambushed him when he first exposed some of PM Modi’s tacit linkages with Gautam Adani in early February this year, it is this perhaps animosity of sorts that encouraged Soros to dig some more other facts that may have remained yet hidden from the Indian nationals across India.
Minister Smriti Irani and Indian Foreign Minister S. Jay Shankar were the ones (the yes men of PM Modi in his cabinet) who had left no stone unturned to condemn Soros for his grand revelation made earlier.
This just explains how facts pinch.
In addition to these high-flying Indian ministers, the entire ruling Party’s IT cell designed to save and PM Modi singularly hurled all possible bad names for the US investor Soros which is on record.
The Economic Times report to shake India: Hardly had the Indian regime ended its celebrations for its being the “first nation to land in the south polar region of the moon-an event that has made the entire South Asians proud, a bombshell is likely to rock the Indian nation soon more so which is expected to expose further Prime Minister Modi and his regime with the publication of a fresh news report titled ‘Hindenberg 2. 0?
Indian media indicted that the “Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), an investigating enterprise apparently backed by George Soros is planning or say preparing to make yet another powerful disclosure on PM Modi and his undeclared highly suspected deeds.
An August 25, 2023, Economic Times report elaborates on the yet-to-be-revealed stuff on a well-known Indian corporate Group saying that “the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a global network of investigative journalists, backed by billionaire investor George Soros among others, are in the final stages of releasing an investigative report on a well-known Indian corporate group”.
It was the Press Trust of India (PTI) a widely acclaimed media agency of India which almost broke the news first.
In Nepal, the OCCRP grand exposure in India that is expected soon is eagerly awaited.
BRICS Summit in South Africa and Modi’s Insult:
Indian PM Modi perhaps didn’t know that he awaited Himalayan insult in South Africa where the BRICS Summit was held. Or else he would not have taken the path to Johannesburg to attend the BRICS Summit.
Writes, Peter Fabricius for the Daily Maverick, August 22, 2023, that while all the attention South Africa and its President was heaping on the visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping who was greeted beamingly by the host President Cyril Ramaphosa, wealthy businessman, at the international airport upon arrival then on the other when PM Modi landed in Johannesburg, almost none except a junior ranking South African official was standing to welcome the arrogant Indian Prime Minister Modi.
Sensing in advance that he was being insulted, PM Modi was clever enough not to disembark from the Aircraft and waited till a message approached the host President that PM Modi needed to a treated at par with the Chinese President.
In order to please PM Modi, President Cyril Ramaphosa sent yet another official which was lower to the rank of the President which was not yet that bad.
Later sensing the gravity of the near to funny situation at the airport the South African President dispatched his deputy President Paul Mashatile to receive Indian PM Modi.
However, the damage was done and the South African President in an oblique manner sent signals to PM Modi that President Jinping is a different political stuff comparatively measured on the global scale.
Finally, PM Modi felt that he was being honored, better late than never, he touched the ground.
With this incident at the Johannesburg airport, PM Modi must have recalled how he had greeted Nepal Prime Minister Dahal at the Delhi airport.
In fact, a few street dancers greeted PM Dahal with their bizarre rumba that was, those who watched the event said.
The rest is a story from South Africa for school children in primary schools.
However, on 23 August 2023, Vukani Mde, the spokesperson for the South African Deputy President, strongly rejected a recent article in the South African newspaper Daily Maverick. The article in question discusses PM Modi visit to South Africa wherein he was awarded a lukewarm treatment.
The Spokesman Vukani Mde considers the report as highly fabricated and without factual basis.
To recall, the BRICS had its 15th Summit that was held in South Africa very freshly.
So far, BRICS comprises countries like Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa.
Russian President Vladimir Putin for some mysterious political reasons did not attend the BRICS Summit in person.
International experts say that in recent years, the BRICS is slowly shifting to the Russia-China orbit which means that both Russia and China have made deep inroads in Africa.
Peter in his story says that “Xi certainly dominated the day. For starters, he was granted an abbreviated state visit on the morning before the BRICS Summit began — his fourth state visit to South Africa”.
To recall, the BRICS block was founded as an informal club in 2009 to provide a platform for its members to challenge a world order dominated by the United States and its Western allies. The formation of the BRICS was the primary initiation of the Russian Federation. As per Reuters, August 22, 2023, over 40 countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Algeria, Bolivia, Indonesia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Comoros, Gabon, and Kazakhstan have expressed interest in joining the forum, according to 2023 summit chair South Africa. That’s all.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect People’s Review’s editorial stance.
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