In any large population, there will always be some people who are disgruntled, but there is a pattern in the protests that happened in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Sanjeev Sanyal, Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council told Moneycontrol.
"The way in which these kinds of sudden spirals happen. You know, one has to ask, is there a pattern in all of this? What you saw in Sri Lanka, then in Bangladesh, and also in Nepal, very similar kinds of things are there. And there are rumors and otherwise of foreign NGOs, particularly USAID funded NGOs which were involved in all of this," Sanyal said in exclusive interview to Moneycontrol.
"After all, we have also had things like farmer protests, Shaheen Bagh and all of this. With very similar patterns. Funded by very similar kinds of agencies. And all of this, by the way, happens in a wider global context of narrative manipulation," he said.
Now, whether or not they are operating in India is something that we should keep our eyes about, the EAC-PM Member said. "I am not saying that every protest is caused by this. But to be wary of these is something that, I think every sort of sovereign nation should."
Sanyal added that the world always has turbulence. "There is no saying that, oh, we live in a particularly turbulent world. Actually, the world is, at every point in history, turbulent. Okay. If you just go back five years ago, we were in the middle of COVID crisis. That was pretty much turbulent. Go back ten years from that, you'll say, oh my God, we've just had the financial crisis. We had had the Mumbai attacks. 9-11, yes. If you go back another ten years from that, you had 9-11. And then before that, you had the dot-com bust. A little bit before that, you had the Asian crisis," he explained.
So, one has to be wary about all these groups and their agendas. And what you see in the US is, and by the way, in many cases, very similar groups of people or networks are involved in doing similar things in India, said Sanyal.
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