'Don't need the UN to tell...': Jaishankar on UN official's free and fair election remark
Days after Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said that the global body hopes everyone in India is able to vote in a free and fair atmosphere, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday dismissed his remarks saying that India doesn't need the UN to tell that our elections should be free and fair as people here will anyway ensure that
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Days after Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said that the global body hopes everyone in India is able to vote in a free and fair atmosphere, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday dismissed his remarks saying that India doesn’t need the UN to tell that our elections should be free and fair as people here will anyway ensure that.
Responding to a query regarding Dujarric’s remark, Jaishankar said, “I don’t need the UN to tell me that our elections should be free and fair. I have the people of India. They will ensure that the elections are free and fair. So, don’t worry about it,” the minister said.
Jaishankar, who was in Thiruvananthapuram to campaign for his ministerial colleague and BJP candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar in the Lok Sabha polls, also said that the UN official made the comment in response to a “very loaded question” during a press briefing at the UN.
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