Nueva Delhi: External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, dismissed the claims of the US senator on Friday Elissa Slotkin who said that democracy “does not put food on the table.” Giving an example of India, Jaishankar said that the world’s largest democracy was able to feed more than 800 million people.
“Senator said that democracy does not put food on your table. Actually, in my part of the world, it does it because in reality, today because we are a democratic society, we give nutritional support and food to 800 million people and for whom it is a The question of how healthy they are and how full are their stomachs.
I was talking at the Munich Security Conference on the subject “Live to vote another day: fortify democratic resilience.”
“There are parts in which it works well, maybe there are parts where they are not and the parties that are not, I think people need to have honest conversations about why it is not, but I would say that as to someone who see dispassionately it is That was your question, there are some problems, many of them are an accumulated problem of the globalization model that we have followed during the last 25-30 years. Let’s not do it universal, “he added.
Indian range in the Global hunger index Last year it was 105 of 127 countries that were rejected by the central government that described it as a “defective measure of” hunger “and does not reflect the true position of India.”
He also dismissed the statements that democracy had weakened worldwide and highlighted the electoral processes of India that mentioned the recently concluded elections in Delhi and the parliamentary elections held in 2024.
“Long before doing that, it seemed to be an optimistic in what is relatively a pessimistic panel, if not space. I will start by putting my finger and does not take it badly, it is the index finger. This, the Mark, you see in my nail, It is a brand of a person who has just voted.