New Delhi: Echoing Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy’s concerns over “growing intolerance”, another business leader, Ms Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, and economist Lord Meghnad Desai on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must act quickly to correct India's image to prevent any threat to foreign investments.
Stating that she feels “very sad” about the current environment in the country, Ms Shaw, chairperson and managing director of Biocon Limited, said it “creates a kind of concern about investing in the country.”
“Let us face it, investors want a sort of harmonious kind of environment to invest in. If they feel there is turmoil, there is unrest, that their investments are not safe, that's what Moody's is talking about... Therefore it is important that government actually act fast and corrects this image,” she was quoted by PTI.
“I think we are a country that have always celebrated diversity and unity in diversity. We have always celebrated our democracy as a very vibrant democracy, as a very tolerant society. And I think we must uphold all these values,” Ms Shaw said.
Lord Meghnad Desai said the country was experiencing a total change in political ideology of the government. “Now the problem is, it is actually different ideology or it is actually intolerance?
The murders of rationalists have nothing to do with BJP because they happened before the BJP came to power. I think what is true is that the tone of at least the junior ministers and MPs of BJP is very openly hostile to Muslims ... It's basically the anti-Muslim tone of some of the BJP ministers and MPs which actually for a lot of people is wrong.”
