"I defy you to show me discrimination..." Jaishankar on minorities in India
minorities in India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday dismissed concerns around discrimination on grounds of religion saying everything had become fairer.
Speaking at an event in Washington DC on Friday, Jaishankar said, «Today, since you brought up the issue of minorities in India, What is the test really of fair and good governance or of the balance of a society? It would be whether in terms of the amenities, the benefits, the access, the rights, do you discriminate or not and in every society in the world, at some point, there's been some discrimination on some basis.
If you look at India today, it's a society today where there is a tremendous change taking place, the biggest change happening today in India is the creation of a social welfare system in a society that has less than USD 3,000 per capita income.»
On India increasingly asserting itself on the international fora, Jaishankar said, «Nobody has done that in the world before...Now, when you look at the benefits of that, you look at housing, you look at health, you look at food, you look at finance, you look at educational access, health access.»
«I defy you to show me discrimination. In fact, the more digital we have become, the more faceless the governance has become.
Actually, it's become fairer,» he added.
«But as I said this is a globalised world. There will be people, you will have people gripe about it and much of the griping is political.
